2 Wuhan whistleblowers missing months after helping expose coronavirus outbreak, activists say

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2 Wuhan whistleblowers missing months after helping expose coronavirus outbreak, activists say​

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By Frank Miles | Fox News

Amid tightening controls on information in China, two citizen journalists reporting on the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan disappeared in February, according to a report, and months later, activists say the whistleblowers are still missing.

Armed with smart phones and social media accounts, nonsanctioned reporters of the outbreak challenged the Communist Party’s tightly policed monopoly on information on an unprecedented scale.

Fang Bin had been posting videos from Wuhan overcrowded hospitals, including footage of body bags piled in a minibus, waiting to be carted to a crematorium.

Fang, a seller of traditional Chinese clothing, filmed a testy exchange through the metal grill of his door with a dissent-quelling group of four or five officers.

The footage posted on YouTube offered a glimpse into how the security apparatus is working overtime to keep a lid on public anger about the spread of the virus.

“Why are there so many of you?” Fang asked. “If I open the door, you’ll take me away!”

Within a week, he stopped posting videos or responding to calls and messages on Sunday, activists said, and then, his phone was turned off.

The last video he posted was of a piece of paper reading, “All citizens resist, hand power back to the people.”

Chen Qiushi looked haggard and disheveled in his last online posts, an almost unrecognizable shadow of an energetic young man who had rolled into Wuhan on a self-assigned mission to tell its inhabitants’ stories this winter.

The 34-year-old lawyer-turned-video blogger was one of the most visible pioneers in a small but dogged movement that is defying the ruling Communist Party, which wants to control the narrative of China. . . .
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Be careful - you might be accused of anti-Asian sentiment criticizing the Chinese
government.
 
Pray for them. Courage to lay down one’s life for others is no doubt our most cherished example as Catholics.
One of the deepest conflicts I have had in CATHOLOCISM is the notion that God may not offer salvation to such people because they happen to be born far away into another faith.
People who sacrifice everything to help others.
I like our tradition of praying for their souls also. And of hope.
 
Maximus1 said:
One of the deepest conflicts I have had in CATHOLOCISM is the notion that God may not offer salvation to such people because they happen to be born far away into another faith.
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As a Catholic that has never been my notion.
 
Maximus1 said:
One of the deepest conflicts I have had in CATHOLOCISM is the notion that God may not offer salvation to such people because they happen to be born far away into another faith.
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if someone seeks transcendent goods, truth, justice, beauty, and love God as they know it or neighbor, they can reach grace and be saved I’ve been told. I pray for all the dead, even if they were not Catholic, so that a) before they die (even in the past, God is present to all times) they can receive sanctifying grace b) being perfected in purgatory they may go into glory
 
There is no surprise there. That is precisely how Communism works. Look at the tragedy that was Tiananmen Square. Most Chinese students do not even learn about that massacre, and many Chinese protesters involved had to leave their families and life in China in order to escape torture and execution.
Benedicat Te Omnipotens Deus
 
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