CHINA-DISSIDENCE: ANOTHER CHINESE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR CALLS FOR PRESS FREEDOM
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The South China Morning Post reported (February 18) that He Weifang, Professor of law at Peking University, wrote a 2-page handwritten article which he shared with friends on WeChat on February 17, 2020, calling for press freedoms. He Weifang said “I hope the heavy price [of the outbreak] will make Chinese authorities come to realise that without press freedom, people will live in distress and the government in mendacity.” He said the absence of press freedom limited the country’s ability to develop good governance. The article was handwritten in an effort to bypass the censors, but the posts were deleted about an hour after he forwarded the two-page article to several chat groups on the platform.
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