Wuhan resident Zhao Lei is suing the Chinese government for compensation and a public apology following thousands of coronavirus deaths in her city at the hands of the mystery disease, including the life of her father.
Wuhan was the first city to endure the hardship of the world’s first lockdown.
“I think the government covered up some facts,” Ms Zhao, 39, told Sky News.
“Because of this, Wuhan people carried on living like before, they celebrated Chinese New Year normally, without taking any protection. It meant my father got infected and died.”
Zhao Lei’s father contracted COVID-19 at the end of January and died of respiratory failure as he sat in the emergency waiting room.
“After Wuhan locked down, he got ill so suddenly. I can’t accept it. Someone just suddenly died. I cannot accept the fact,” Ms Zhao said.
“I think the government covered up the fact that coronavirus could spread from people to people. I hold the government accountable and ask them to pay the due price.”
The municipal court rejected her application and police visited her mother warning she should drop the case and not speak publicly.
Authorities detained several Chinese citizen journalists who reported from Wuhan, with some still in custody.
“What I did is legal, what I said is fact. I didn’t lie. I didn’t make up rumours,” she said.
“I think my lawsuit is good for our country. It can warn people that if we have a disaster next time, we could do something to prevent bad outcomes. We can save more people.”
It is a courageous fight against a system that does not tolerate dissent. China has always insisted it has acted “openly and transparently” in its handling of COVID-19.
Ms Zhao’s legal consultant Yang Zhanqing said China wouldn’t “publicly punish the people who covered up the epidemic” because “they don’t acknowledge that they did cover up the epidemic”.
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Podz430
I thought they said this virus wouldn’t just disappear…..
TGATY
This is a “be afraid of the Corona boogeyman virus” propaganda piece. It is so unlike most of the fact-based content on this channel. I don’t get you Sky News. The facts seems to support the 1996 Wuhan Flu virus being re-released into the human population. It appears this was to give some semblance of reality to a fake pandemic. Nursing homes appear to be deliberately infected and the proper protocols ignored in order to cause some actual deaths that can be attributed to the “novel coronavirus”. In the rest of the population, COVID-19 does not appear to be anything more to be concerned about than any flu. No lockdown whatever of any kind anywhere was or is justified. Mask wearing is wholly ineffectual and appears to be nothing but a psychological control measure. Children are so unlikely to contract or spread the “novel coronavirus” that no measures need to be taken whatsoever to mask them, distance them or restrict their congregating at all let alone shut down their schooling. What is happening to my children at their schools is an abomination and I consider to be an act of terrorism. They will not be unaffected by the unscientific and unjust ruining of their lives. I pray they will grow up with the knowledge and wisdom to institute government restrictions–yes, restrictions on governments–so that the oppression they are suffering under now will not be possible when their children are in school. Sky News, you know all this. Why do you produce this kind of nonsense propaganda?
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hey bird
Next headline. Wuhan local disappears.
Ivan Sultanoff
CCP will not have anyone going against them, they ll be silenced or disposed off as evidence showed in the past
Vas Vaselevski
So all is ok there and had 50.000 kids in a concert living it up no masks no soicial dist. BUTTTTTT ffff head DANNNNNN counts cases?????¿??????????? I say. Stop the comminggggg civil war?
Tyson Bailey
Death wish..
Martin leBothel
CCP has no Honour.
Jack Huang
Mission impossible
Jack Black
Thousands of coronavirus deaths in her city, China’s official toll is 4600😂 . Why CCP always lie no morality like a dog.