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The Chinese authorities are trying hard to control The Narrative

you are the citizen journalists who want the "truth" about what to see in Wuhan, the epicenter of the Corona-Virus outbreak in China.

videos posted online, shared pictures and drama was put on tables, stories from the heart of The City under the quarantine, nearly cut off from the rest of the country.

Now, you are nowhere to be found.

catch-Bin, and Chen Qiushi were both determined to share what they could to The Crisis , reporting from Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, and send you found out in The World .

As a result, they racked up thousands of views on your videos. But their channels have become silent, and those who followed it online is the fear that you disappeared then for ever.

What do we know about catch Am?

Wuhan business man catch Am, started posting videos about the outbreak to the "report on the actual situation here," promised "to be the best one to do" in the reporting.

It's his first video uploaded on may 25. January on YouTube, which is banned in China, but the access via virtual private networks (VPN).

catcher'm required to "hand The Power of government back to the people"

His first couple of videos - most of the time with him driving around The City and show The Situation in different Places managed a little More Than 1,000 views.

Then on 1. In February, he filmed a video, the attention of the people. The clip that was viewed nearly 200,000 times, seems to show eight corpses piled up in a minibus in front of the hospital in Wuhan.

Fang , who claims that the police breaks into his home on the same night and interrogated him about his videos. He was taken away, be warned, but finally released.

But at 9. In February, he released a 13-second video with The Words "all men revolt - hand The Power of government back to the people".

After the account is silent.

What do we know about Chen Qiushi ?

Chen , a former Human Rights lawyer turned video journalist, was already relatively well known in The Activist space. He built his reputation through his coverage of the Hong Kong protests last August.

That the reporting, which he later claimed meant that he was harassed and ultimately muzzled by the Chinese authorities upon his return to the mainland. Its Chinese Social Media accounts that allegedly had a fan base of More Than 700,000, were deleted.

But he could not be kept quiet.

In October, he created a YouTube account now has about 400,000 subscribers. He also has about 265.000 followers on Twitter .

Chen Qiushi , a Chinese social-media accounts were deleted.

at the end of January he decided to travel to Wuhan, a report on the deterioration of The Situation .

"I'm going to document with my camera what really happened. I Promise , I'm going to... cover up The Truth ," he said in his first YouTube video.

He visited several hospitals in Wuhan, view the conditions and talk to patients.

Chen knew that this was what threatened him. He told the BBC's John Sudworth earlier this month that he was unsure how long he will be able to continue.

"The censorship is very strict, and people's accounts are closed, if you share my content," he said.

Then, at the 7. In February, a video was shared on his Twitter account which is currently managed by a friend - and his mother said he had disappeared that day.

His friend Xu Xiaodong later claimed in a YouTube video that he made forcibly quarantined.

What has been said by authorities?

the Chinese authorities remained tight-lipped on the issue. There is no official statement about the details of where fishing or are Qiushi, or if you are likely to be, when he's not in quarantine.

Patrick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International , said it was still unclear whether Chen or Fang "were taken away by the police or 'forced quarantine'".

But, he added, The Authorities should have taken "at least" the members of the family contact.

"the Chinese authorities should inform themselves, their families, and give them access to a lawyer of their choice. Otherwise, it is a legitimate concern, he also said that the risk of torture or other ill-treatment," Mr Poon of the BBC.

Why might you be gone?

Beijing is known for clamping down on activists, which speak. It has also been keen to show it is always the outbreak under control.

It is perhaps not surprising that, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers, The Authorities are currently "equally, if not more, with silencing criticism than with the spread of The Virus ".

A doctor, Li Ruifeng, after raising The Alarm about The Virus earlier in December. When he finally caught up with The Virus and died.

His Death provoked an unprecedented wave of anger, the sparks of an online uprising. The Chinese authorities were stunned, and reacted by trying to censor every critical comment about Dr. Li's Death .

Despite the increasing number of victims, many of the patients

to recover,"The authoritarian Chinese government has a history of harassment and detention of citizens who speak for The Truth or criticise The Authorities in public emergencies, for example, during the Sars epidemic in 2003 and Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Wenzhou train crash in 2011, and Tianjin chemical explosion in 2015," HRW is Yaqiu Wang told the BBC.

But, she says, China needs to learn "from experience and understand that the freedom of information, transparency, and respect for the rights, make it easier to control the disease, not to hinder".

"The Authorities are doing yourself a disservice by not [added allegedly] Fang and Chen disappear," she said.

On the Chinese news site Weibo, there are only a handful of comments and fishing to mention - and it seems only a matter of time before they scrubbed away by China's ever-vigilant censors.

"and[they] rewrite history," said a comment. "So slow it will be as it never was] someone Chen Qiushi called. "

coronavirus outbreak, china, wuhan, freedom of expression

Source of news: bbc.com