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Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years
(www.theguardian.com)
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You know who else was arrested for "spreading misinformation"? The doctor who tried to warn his friends about covid privately, before the government took any action.
Source (in chinese): https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51371586
The form he filled out at police station, clearly stating his action is against the law:
couple related articles in english:
He was never actually arrested though as far as I can tell. The local police basically gave him a warning against spreading rumors of an SARS outbreak because they were worried it would cause a panic. This was an overstep and the police later apologized and admitted they were in the wrong.
According to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/arrest, "arrest" means
And in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrest
Dr. Li was taken to police station because the police has deemed his action is against the law.
He was later released because he signed a consent about "stop spreading misinformation", which I showed in my response. We wouldn't know how he will be treated if he refuse to sign such consent. But I might hypothesize that the police wouldn't simply let him go.
And he has never spread any misinformation, the patient record he sent to his friend clearly indicated the patient has tested positive for SARS; and as we know later, the disease is indeed caused by SARS-cov2.