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China censorship fuels virus revival risk, says human rights watchdog


There is a “tremendous danger” of a Covid-19 resurgence in China due to Beijing’s censorship and suppression during the coronavirus outbreak, Human Rights Watch warned on Thursday.

Meanwhile the “culture of denialism” among the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Brazil was costing lives, HRW executive director Kenneth Roth told reporters in Geneva via a virtual press conference.

A man wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus walks past a Communist Party flag along a street in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on March 31, 2020. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP.

The non-governmental organisation’s chief said China was the “most notorious abuser” when it came to exploiting the pandemic to indulge in censorship.



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