By Patrick Goodenough | December 28, 2020 | 7:19pm EST
A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Lee Cheuk-Yan, protests on Monday against the jailing of Zhang Zhan, whose image appears in the poster behind him. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)
(Adds reaction from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo)
(CNSNews.com) – Days before a team of international experts is expected to visit Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, China’s jailing of a citizen journalist for her critical coverage of the outbreak is drawing strong condemnation, including from the U.S. government and the United Nations.
Zhang Zhan was convicted in Shanghai on Monday of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, according to her lawyer.
By Patrick Goodenough | December 28, 2020 | 7:19pm EST
A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Lee Cheuk-Yan, protests on Monday against the jailing of Zhang Zhan, whose image appears in the poster behind him. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)
(Adds reaction from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo)
(CNSNews.com) – Days before a team of international experts is expected to visit Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, China’s jailing of a citizen journalist for her critical coverage of the outbreak is drawing strong condemnation, including from the U.S. government and the United Nations.
Zhang Zhan was convicted in Shanghai on Monday of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, according to her lawyer.
The hysterical propaganda against communist nations and fighters goes hand in hand with the bombs, torture and assassination that are US/British/French/NATO specialties. The modern version of “human rights” campaigning was born out of the US defeat in Vietnam, and the spate of revelations that came out of that period about US crimes (Pentagon Papers, Church Senate investigations, Winter Soldier, etc.) in
an attempt to rebrand the Vietnam war criminals as some sort of humanitarians. The Helsinki Accords were a US propaganda program that the misguided leaders of the USSR, along with Tito, etc. approved with the vain hope of detente and peaceful cooperation between nations. In reality, the US never wanted such peaceful coexistence.
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.
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).