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Where Is Investigation Report Into Coronavirus Whistleblower?

Joyce Huang

   One month after the death of China's coronavirus whistleblower doctor
   Li Wenliang, civil groups and rights advocates at home and abroad are
   demanding answers from the Chinese government's investigation into his
   alleged grievance and speech suppression.

   Many, however, say pessimistically they won't get their hopes up as
   they suspect that China is likely paying just lip service.

   In a press statement, a Washington-based non-profit organization --
   Citizen Power Initiative for China -- urged the Chinese authorities to
   soon release results of the investigation, which it said shouldn't have
   taken more than a month.

   "Dr. Li's name as a rumormonger is still yet to be cleared even though
   China's National Health Commission had just honored him, along with 33
   other medical professionals [who died from the coronavirus disease, for
   their outstanding performance and dedication to the country's fight
   against the outbreak," the statement said.

   Questions to be answered

   The group said that it expects the Chinese government to answer their
   five major questions in the to-be-released investigative report.

   Those include: whether Li was telling the truth about the virus? If
   yes, who should be held responsible for the police arrest of Li and his
   associates? How did the police obtain Li's private WeChat messages? At
   that time, whether the central government was aware of the outbreak in
   Wuhan and who should be held responsible for the state media CCTV's
   report, which called Li and his associates rumormongers.

   VOA's email to China's National Supervisory Commission for response
   went unanswered.

   The 34-year-old ophthalmologist from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak,
   was among eight whistleblowers reprimanded by local authorities for
   trying to sound the alarm about the deadly coronavirus during December
   of last year.

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