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Doctor who fled China to reveal virus truth

Dr Li-Meng Yan fled China to reveal her country’s cover-up about the origin of coronavirus. She is now in hiding in the US.

A Chinese doctor who fled her home country under threat has claimed COVID-19 originated in a military lab and China and the World Health Organisation covered up facts about its human contagion early on.

Li-Meng Yan, whose family and friends have been interrogated and threatened by communist party officials since she left China in April, has become a coronavirus whistleblower in the US.

She was working as a virologist last December at Hong Kong University’s public health laboratory sciences division, a World Health Organisation infectious diseases research centre.

Her boss, Professor Leo Poon, asked her to investigate a mysterious cluster of SARS-like virus cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Professor Poon was one of the scientists engaged in identifying the genome sequence of the 2003 SARS coronavirus epidemic.

What Dr Yan found would be ignored by Beijing and further suppressed by the regime and its scientists.

Early in January she knew from the family clusters among the Wuhan cases there was human-to-human transmission and that other scientists in China had sequenced the COVID-19 genome.

She knew Wuhan had more cases than the Chinese government was admitting and she would come to believe Beijing’s claim the virus came from a Wuhan wet market which was a deliberate lie.

“They didn’t want public discussion. They were telling people not to worry,” she said.

Dr Yan was not the only medical official wanting to get out the truth about coronavirus.

On January 23, eight doctors were arrested for putting warnings about coronavirus on social media – authorities called it “spreading hoaxes” and then on February 7 one of them, Dr Li Wenliang, died.

During February, Dr Yan’s sense of alarm rose as coronavirus began its global spread, with clusters emerging in Lombardy, Italy, on the Diamond Princess berthed at Yokohama, Japan.

And then in South Korea, Iran, the Middle East and so on, by February 28 recording 84,090 cases and 2,874 deaths worldwide.

As the death tolls began to rise, Dr Yan realised she was had special knowledge about a global catastrophe underway which her own government was desperate to keep quiet.

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/doctor-who-fled-china-to-reveal-virus-truth/news-story/0ebf5993691da3ffb612438ecf8bd6c3

Zarif Slams US Claims of Seizing Iranian Tankers, Says ‘Propaganda Doesn’t Deflect’ Failure at UN

On Friday, The US Department of Justice confirmed a Thursday report by The Wall Street Journal, that US authorities had “successfully” disrupted a “multi-million dollar fuel shipment” by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), after seizing four oil tankers in international waters carrying alleged Iranian gasoline bound for Venezuela.

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Saturday refuted allegations by the Trump administration about a US seizure of four Iranian oil tankers with fuel bound for Venezuela, saying that the vessels involved in what he described as an act of “piracy” were not Iran-flagged and the fuel on board belonged to Tehran.

“‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ have their own judges and courts now. Sadly for them, stolen booty wasn't Iran's. Fuel was sold F.O.B. [freight on board] Persian Gulf. Ship and flag weren't ours either,” Zarif tweeted, referring to a shipping expression used to indicate when liability and ownership of goods is transferred from a seller to a buyer.

The diplomat added that the “hollow and cheap propaganda” would not cover up the White House's “miserable failure” to pass a United Nation Security Council draft resolution aiming to extend an arms embargo against Iran, set to expire in October.

“Hollow, cheap propaganda doesn’t deflect from miserable failure of US diplomatic malpractice at UN,” Zarif stated.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008161080183511-zarif-slams-us-claims-of-seizing-iranian-tankers-says-propaganda-doesnt-deflect-failure-at-un/

Four Years After ‘Lock Her Up’ Was Heavily Criticized, Calls For Prosecution Of Trump Gain Steam

The media and Democrats lambasted President Donald Trump for his supporters’ chants of “lock her up” during the 2016 presidential election, but in 2020 it is Democrats who are warming to the idea of prosecuting Trump after the election.

While Biden himself told NPR that prosecuting Trump would be “probably … not very good for Democracy,” he said he would not interfere with the Justice Department’s judgement of whether a prosecution was necessary.

Other prominent Democrats — including Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris — have called for prosecuting Trump after the election in no uncertain terms. The media reaction to these calls, however, bears no resemblance to the response to chants of “lock her up” in 2016.

Biden’s newly-declared running mate said in June 2019 that she expected herself and any of her fellow candidates to prosecute Trump on charges of obstruction of justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation if elected.

“I believe that [my fellow candidates] would have no choice and that they should, yes,” Harris said at the time. “Everyone should be held accountable, and the president is not above the law.”

“I do believe that we should believe Bob Mueller when he tells us essentially that the only reason an indictment was not returned is because of a memo in the Department of Justice that suggests you cannot indict a sitting president. But I’ve seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence,” she added.

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment on whether Harris still believes the DOJ should prosecute Trump.

Harris is not alone in thinking Trump should face charges, however. Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for prosecuting not only Trump but his entire administration. The campaign website for her now-defunct presidential campaign still calls for establishing “a Justice Department Task Force to investigate corruption during the Trump administration and to hold government officials accountable for illegal activity.”

“Donald Trump has run the most corrupt administration in history,” the site reads. “He was impeached for withholding foreign aid in an effort to try to benefit his re-election campaign. He has enriched himself and his business through the power of his office. And there are public reports of potentially illegal corruption in every corner of his administration.” Eric Holder, the former attorney general under President Barack Obama, has also called for the next administration to prosecute members of Trump’s administration. When a cable news personality asked on Twitter who would be prosecuting Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for allegedly “obstructing mail,” he responded “the next, real, Justice Department.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/15/trump-biden-harris-lock-her-up-clinton/