{"id":15267,"date":"2020-03-01T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/li-zehuajournalist-wouldnt-stay-quiet-covid-19-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:06:06","slug":"theyre-chasing-me-the-journalist-who-wouldnt-stay-quiet-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15267","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re chasing me\u2019: the journalist who wouldn\u2019t stay quiet on Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Zehua is missing, presumed detained. He\u2019s one of many for whom the coronavirus crisis has led to a political awakening and a demand for free speech<\/p>\n<p>Li Zehua, 25, a citizen journalist in Wuhan, is being chased. Wearing a facemask underneath a baseball cap, he quickly records a video while driving. \u201cI\u2019m on the road and someone, I don\u2019t know, state security, has started chasing me,\u201d he says breathlessly. \u201cI\u2019m driving very fast. Help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Li posts a live stream of himself in an apartment, waiting for those same agents to knock on his door, probably to detain him. In an impassioned monologue, he explains why he quit a stable job at China\u2019s state broadcaster, CCTV, and how he came to Wuhan on his own.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/li-zehuajournalist-wouldnt-stay-quiet-covid-19-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Zehua is missing, presumed detained. He\u2019s one of many for whom the coronavirus crisis has led to a political awakening and a demand for free speechLi Zehua, 25, a citizen journalist in Wuhan, is being chased. Wearing a facemask underneath a baseball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"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":[50,1069,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267","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\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}