Fan Bin A. Chinese journalist arrested in 2020 for posting a video about the situation in Wuhan hospitals at the beginning COVID-19 pandemicwas released, although the Chinese authorities denied him entry to Beijing.

U.S. radio station Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that Bean, 48, classified as a “citizen journalist”, was released on Sunday, after which he she moved to Beijing to live with her son. Beijing authorities reportedly denied him entry.

Bean was arrested after he posted a video of himself on social media body bags and overcrowded hospitals in Wuhanafter which he was sentenced to three years in prison for “causing trouble and fighting” in a case very similar to that of 39-year-old lawyer Zhang Zhang, who also reported a virus outbreak and was sentenced to four years in prison on the charges. the same accusations.

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Since his arrest in May 2020 Bean went on a hunger strike which caused him to lose weight drastically. Since the pandemic began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China has detained several activists who tried to report on what was happening in the “ground zero”.

China officially informed the World Health Organization (WHO) total about 120 thousand deaths caused by the virus, almost half of them this winter. However, according to various estimates, the death toll in China is about a million people.

In March last year, the WHO once again appealed to China to share all scientific information that may be useful in determining the origin of the Covid-19 pandemicupon learning that it had genetic and molecular results, it was the first place in the animal market to be suspected and saved.

Information from China’s Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) was uploaded in January to an open-source science platform and discovered by European experts, who analyzed it and reported their findings to the WHO, but have since all this data has been removed from it.

The WHO indicated that, as soon as it became aware of this, it asked the Chinese authorities to make the information available, which has not yet happened. He clarified that these data do not allow to draw a final conclusion. about how the pandemic began, but they represent “an important part that will bring us closer to the answer.”

(According to information from Europa Press and Aristegui News)