Of course it doesn't. In the first place, at that time, the virus hadn't been sequenced, so no one knew that it wasn't SARS. I repeat: at the time Li was forced to recant, there was no way of knowing whether the virus was the original SARS. So there was no proof that his information was false, at the time that he was forced to recant it.
In the second place, when Li mentioned SARS, he was quoting the report of another doctor, who treated these patients. And he specifically added that the exact type of SARS had not yet been identified. So there was nothing in his posting that was false. He was forced to take back his statement of seven SARS cases, when that statement was factually true.
The "slap on the wrist" was in fact a threat of prosecution if he communicated to others anything about the virus and the disease.
The virus sequence not being sequenced yet is the exact reason why he shouldn't have spread rumors about it being SARS. The exact type of SARS? LOL! At that stage there was only 1 type of SARS (the one from 2003), the virus wasn't even called SARS-COV-2 at that stage prior to the virus being sequenced, the only thing similar to SARS was the disease symptoms, so saying it was SARS was 100% false information. He should have called it a new unknown respiratory illness or similar, instead of jumping to incorrect conclusions, like here:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...zens-at-virginia-retirement-community/135890/
What false information? You still haven't provided any.
Four years in jail for knocking over a barrier or something? Seriously?
Zhang Zhan is not a journalist, she had no journalistic credentials. Therefore she's not free press. Journalism requires facts by definition; you can't do journalism with lies. That's called a propagandist. Adding a ridiculous epithet ("citizen journalist") to the term doesn't free you from real world consequences of false reporting. To top it off, she's a lawyer and rant is typical of a petit-bourgeois/middle class ideologue: freedom of the individual above the collective good; moral values above social values. Finally, as I laid out above, she is on the payroll of the US under the CHRD organization, aka a CIA asset,
https://www.nchrd.org/2020/09/zhang-zhan/ so she has an agenda for her rioting.
Not provided false information? LOL! Did you even look at her videos and interviews before trying to defend her actions? How about his: Our brave and free Ms. Zhang records herself harassing a medical checkpoint in Wuhan
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K4SBNhYoQs&feature=emb_title
How about this interview with U.S. government financed
Radio Free Asia , when Wuhan had already defeated the coronavirus but faced with a few new infections in May, resulting in the government testing all 11 million people in Wuhan:
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/residential-05142020110658.html
"There are police outside on the street now guarding the place, and no vehicles are being allowed through," Zhang said. "I asked a nearby resident how many people were taken away in ambulances, and he told me that 180 people were taken away for isolation."
"The barriers have been put back and the place is under lockdown," Zhang said. "There is also an online announcement saying that delivery drivers aren't being allowed to enter certain compounds."
"There are signs of a resurgence of the epidemic in Wuhan."
There was no resurgence of Covid-19 in Wuhan. No new lockdown. Just 6 confirmed cases, and the rest asymptomatic cases found during the city-wide testing, which was soon resolved. Biased and false information hoping to cause panic. Check.
I can't believe your ignorance of the U.S. It is absolutely jaw-dropping. Hello, protests like this happen ALL THE GD TIME in the U.S. People have gathered in front of governors's houses to protest the pandemic measures. They have held anti-lockdown rallies. Individuals have caused disturbances in stores by not wearing a mask (they are told to leave the store, but they aren't arrested). They have protested outside hospitals, claiming that the C19 cases aren't real. No one gets arrested for this stuff, unless there is actual violence.
Was the US ever in strict lockdown forbidding entry/exit like Wuhan was in late January? Zhang Zhan broke into quarantine in February, defied lock-down orders for which she should have been punished. She was in China, not the US, and violated the country's laws, confidentiality rules, quarantine rules, etc. and that's even if we don't consider her likelihood acting as a CIA foreign agent, hence these are criminal acts and deserves punishment. China was faced with what the west called its "Chernobyl Moment", and millions of people would have had their lives ruined if no action was taken, and this Zhang woman did the best she could to actually make that tragedy happen, by trying to persuade the populace that they should turn against the Chinese government in the middle of a serious national crisis, and ignore the quarantine rules the government had set to keep people alive. And you still want to defend this wacko and that she doesn't deserve punishment for what she tried to do?
An increase of 12 times from the previous year. IOW, this is an extraordinarily different year, very different from what usually is the case. Why? Because of the BLM protests. Protests such as these would never even be allowed in China.
When journalists covered the protests, it was hard to distinguish them from people who might have been breaking the law. Most of these journalists were "detained", i.e., stopped and questioned. Very few, if any, were jailed, and none was jailed for any length of time remotely approaching four days, let alone four years. And of course there was outrage over it. Again, get a grip.
Where is the outrage? Where are the simultaneous outpouring of support from all MSM outlets regarding each of the arrested journalists? Where are the lists naming each of these 100+ arrested journalists? There are none, because these people only gain a name and unbridled western media support when they are arrested in China, at the same time ignoring all their misbehaviors, history of causing troubles, and the real reasons behind their arrests.
Again, you're going around in circles, contradicting yourself. See the picture in that link you posted? See all the people protesting in support of Assange? Think that would happen in China? Do you think any media in China would be allowed to post an article critical of the government like that? Do you think there are public forums like this one in China, where people constantly, day in, day out, criticize the government?
I myself am not advocating that Assange be prosecuted. But the documents he published have put many people at potential risk. Again, trying to compare this to what Li did is a total joke. Only someone who is blinded by China-love, who absolutely, positively to save himself cannot utter one single word critical of China--unlike I and most other posters on this thread, who constantly, day after day after day, criticize the U.S. government. The amount of anti-U.S. government criticism posted on this thread is at least fifty times the amount of criticism of China, but you can't handle any criticism of China whatsoever.
I accept all legitimate criticism of China, but posting MSM propaganda pieces defaming China based on lies is laughable. Earlier, I posted that in mid January, the authorities should definitely have acted quicker, and caused a week's delay in confirming new positive cases by requiring both PCR and chest scan positives. Almost every single one of my posts have been debunking outright lies (virus created in a lab; 20+ million people died in the first 2 months based on cellphone and crematorium data; outbreak began much earlier based on false parking lot satellite data and web search results; "disappeared" journalists, etc. ). Notice a trend? Only someone who has seen nothing but MSM propaganda their entire life would believe anything coming out of the corporate media regarding criticisms on China, regardless of accuracy, without knowing the whole story.
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