Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan sentenced for reporting early on COVID in Wuhan By Grace Qi Chinese journalist restrained and fed by tube
Beijing Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist in China, was sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai on Monday for her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan early this year. She didn t immediately say if she would appeal the sentence, her lawyer, Zhang Keke, told CBS News.
During the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Zhang Zhan s live reports and essays were widely shared on social media, grabbing the attention of authorities. She was fiercely critical of the government for its virus containment measures and eagerly sought answers to the silencing of whistleblowers and other citizen journalists.
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Zhang was critical of the early response in Wuhan, writing in a February essay that the government didn t give people enough information, then simply locked down the city . Lawyer Ren Quanniu (C), representing Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, arrives at the Shanghai Pudong New District People s Court on December 28, 2020. (AFP)
A Chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said, almost a year after the virus first surfaced in the central China city.
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The Mighty Wurlitzer - How U.S. Financed Human Rights Organizations Create Anti-Chinese Headlines
During my daily skimming of the main stream media I at times detect news items that seem of little public interest but are widely published. These pieces are often suspiciously similar to each other and seem to come from the Mighty Wurlitzer :
In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an expose revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing
a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence around the world.
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CIA official Frank Wisner called the operation his mighty Wurlitzer, on which he could play any propaganda tune.