{"id":23061,"date":"2020-09-24T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/wuhan-covid-journalist-missing-since-february-found-says-friend-chen-qiushi-china"},"modified":"2020-09-24T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T09:47:09","slug":"wuhan-covid-journalist-missing-since-february-found-says-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23061","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan Covid journalist missing since February found, says friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Qiushi who reported on Chinese response to virus believed to be in detention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared in February while reporting on China\u2019s early response to the coronavirus in Wuhan has been found, a friend has reported, revealing that the young man had been detained by Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Chen Qiushi, a former lawyer turned citizen journalist, started reporting from the streets and hospitals of Wuhan from 23 January and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/coronavirus-journalist-missing-in-wuhan-as-anger-towards-chinese-authorities-grows\">his disappearance<\/a> prompted accusations the Chinese government was rounding up journalists and whistleblowers. Chinese authorities gave no details of his whereabouts or condition, but his mother said shortly after he disappeared that he\u2019d been forcibly quarantined.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/24\/wuhan-covid-journalist-missing-since-february-found-says-friend-chen-qiushi-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Qiushi who reported on Chinese response to virus believed to be in detentionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared in February while reporting on China\u2019s early response to the coron&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,1069,238,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-media","category-press-freedom","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\/23061","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions\/23062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}