{"id":13886,"date":"2020-02-07T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/07\/coronavirus-chinese-rage-death-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:10:58","slug":"hero-who-told-the-truth-chinese-rage-over-coronavirus-death-of-whistleblower-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13886","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hero who told the truth&#8217;: Chinese rage over coronavirus death of whistleblower doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demands for freedom of speech in the wake of Li Wenliang\u2019s death have been censored by the authorities amid widespread outpouring of anger <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/07\/coronavirus-live-updates-in-china-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-doctor-japan\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/whistleblower-chinese-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus\">death of a whistleblowing Chinese doctor<\/a> who was punished for trying to raise the alarm about coronavirus has sparked an explosion of anger, grief and demands for freedom of speech among ordinary Chinese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-profile\">Li Wenliang<\/a>, 34, died in the early hours of Friday local time after he was infected during the fight against the outbreak, said Wuhan central hospital, where he worked, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/07\/coronavirus-chinese-rage-death-whistleblower-doctor-li-wenliang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demands for freedom of speech in the wake of Li Wenliang\u2019s death have been censored by the authorities amid widespread outpouring of anger Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 latest updatesThe death of a whistleblowing Chinese doctor who was punished for trying to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,59,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions\/13887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}