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Shi Jun, a neurosurgeon in Heilongjiang, China, who reportedly volunteered to treat patients in Wuhan at the onset of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, killed himself by stabbing his thigh with a toothbrush after being arrested and facing five-hour interrogations, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.
Shiâs death surfaced in reports on Chinese government-controlled social media outlets like WeChat and Weixin. An extensive Weixin post featuring photos of Shi and allegedly-deleted reports praising his work in Wuhan before his arrest remains available through the Internet Archive, but visiting the original URL of the post pulls up a message stating that the post violated the siteâs âregulations.â
The news of Shiâs death recalls the similar case of Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, where the Chinese coronavirus originated, who police arrested, interrogated, and forced to issue a humiliating âapologyâ in early 2020 after Li told fellow doctors in a WeChat group that he had seen patients with symptoms of an unknown respiratory infection. Believing it to be contagious, Li reportedly told the other doctors to take infectious disease precautions like washing their hands and wearing masks, which Wuhan police used to accuse him of spreading panic in the days before China admitted to the discovery of a novel virus. Li died in February 2020 of a Chinese coronavirus infection, according to Chinese Communist Party media.
