Chinese authorities are preparing to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak
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2020年初，最初的新冠肺炎疫情摧毁了中国中部湖北省1100万居民所在的武汉市。在76天的封锁下，除了救护车和安全人员外，其街道空无一人数月。

当时，少数公民记者试图用智能手机和社交媒体帐户讲述他们和其他人的故事，无视共产党严格监管的信息垄断。虽然他们的运动很小，但规模在中国之前的任何重大疾病爆发或灾难中都是前所未有的。

In early 2020, the initial COVID outbreak devastated the city of Wuhan, home to 11 million residents, in central China’s Hubei province. Under a 76-day lockdown, its streets were deserted for months, apart from ambulances and security personnel.

At that time, a small number of citizen journalists tried to tell their stories and those of others with smart phones and social media accounts, defying the Communist Party’s tightly policed monopoly on information. Although their movement was small, the scale was unprecedented in any previous major disease outbreak or disaster in China.