Yongzhen wrote Monday that he and his team had been suddenly told they were being evicted, the latest in a series of setbacks since his defiant 2020 publication
Zhang Yongzhen. Sequencing a virus is key to the development of test kits and disease control. Barring from lab is latest in string of apparent state efforts to control informationA dissident Chinese scientist, who became the first to publish a sequence of the Covid-19 virus in his native country against state direction, staged a sit-in protest outside his laboratory after guards barred him from entering the building.
'I won't leave, I won't quit, I am pursuing science and the truth!' he wrote in a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo that was later deleted. 'For the team members of researcher Zhang Yongzhen who are engaged in scientific research activities, the hospital has provided an additional office and experimental space in the scientific research building.'Our institute always respects scientific researchers and supports scientific researchers and students in carrying out normal research work.'
Zhang told reporters by phone it was 'inconvenient' for him to speak, saying there were other people listening in.
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