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Picking quarrels, provoking trouble: Lawyer jailed for publishing COVID-19 stories China wanted to hide Zhang Zhan said she was under tight surveillance in her videos and social media posts — on Twitter and YouTube — ended when she was detained in May. Agence France-Presse December 30, 2020 10:10:45 IST 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 Kon...

12-30-2020 Pro-democracy activists, including Lee Cheuk-Yan, right, hold placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan as they march to the Chinese central government's liaison office, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old Christian journalist in China, has been sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai due to her reporting of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, the epicenter of the viral spread that sparked the ongoing pandemic. The citizen-reporter was found guilty Monday by the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court ...

Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan Is Jailed for COVID Reporting Posted by John Chan | Dec 28, 2020 Zhang Zhan, lawyer-turned-citizen journalist who documented the lockdown of Wuhan at the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, has been jailed for four years for her reporting. She was the fourth citizen journalist to be arrested and the only one to be formally indicted for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” and has been on hunger strike in prison since shortly after her arrest in June 2020. The Washington Post’s Lily Kuo In a closed-door trial that lasted less than three hours, authoritie...

23 Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is seen in Wuhan, Hubei province, China in this handout picture taken on May 3, 2020. (Reuters) Frail and in a wheelchair from a prolonged hunger strike, 37-year-old former lawyer Zhang Zhan issued a mostly silent rebuke to the Chinese legal system, before being jailed for publishing stories about the pandemic that China does not want to be told. Zhang started reporting from Wuhan in February, questioning the lockdown of the city, access to virus testing and hospital capacity. Her videos also captured the aggression of Chinese authorit...

Christian reporter Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty by Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble due to her reporting on the COVID crisis in Wuhan. | YouTube/DW A Christian reporter who saw her work as God’s will has been sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai after she documented the coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty by Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court on Monday morning of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” the South China Morning Post reports. The sentence is o...