Submitting.
Zhang Zhan, a 37 year old independent journalist and former lawyer was arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” and was charged with disseminating false information last month.
Zhan was one of several people in China who travelled to Wuhan to document the outbreak of the pandemic, and in some cases dispute the official narrative being put out across state media in China.
Why was she arrested?
Zhan had produced videos and posts on social media focussing on the detention of other independent journalists and how families of victims seeking accountability were being harassed, according to the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
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Chinese citizen journalist jailed for four years over Wuhan Covid-19 reporting
Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced at a brief hearing in a Shanghai court. By AFP Monday 28 Dec 2020, 10:01 AM Dec 28th 2020, 10:01 AM 39,683 Views 46 Comments
A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside the Chinese central government s liaison office, in Hong Kong
Image: Kin Cheung via PA Images
A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside the Chinese central government s liaison office, in Hong Kong
Image: Kin Cheung via PA Images
A CHINESE CITIZEN journalist has been jailed for four years for her reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said.
Citizen journalist jailed over Wuhan virus reporting
Updated / Monday, 28 Dec 2020
13:02
Zhang arrived in Wuhan on 1 February from her home in Shanghai
A Chinese court has handed a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year s coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, her lawyer said.
Zhang Zhan, 37, was among a handful of people whose first hand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painted a more dire picture of the pandemic epicentre than the official narrative. I don t understand. All she did was say a few true words, and for that she got four years, said Shao Wenxia, Zhang s mother, who attended the trial with her husband.
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