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A Chinese citizen journalist imprisoned for covering the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is in critical condition and in need of immediate medical care following her hunger strikes protesting against the imprisonment. Zhang Zhan was detained in May 2020 and was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment in December after the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” were levelled …
Hong Kong CNN — Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist imprisoned for reporting on China’s initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020, is in desperate need of medical care, according to Human Rights Watch. The US-based rights group is calling on authorities in Beijing to release Zhang, a former lawyer, who was detained in May 2020 and sentenced in December …
Frail and in a wheelchair from 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. She wanted to understand their sufferings and let the wider world know,” said her lawyer Zhang Keke, also from …
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