Chinese Journalist Jailed For Covid Reporting In Wuhan Set To Be Freed

[Hamartia Antidote]

Chinese Journalist Jailed For Covid Reporting In Wuhan Set To Be Freed

Ms Zhan, a former lawyer turned independent journalist, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020

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Ms Zhan, a former lawyer turned independent journalist, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020​

Zhang Zhan was detained in May 2020 and later sentenced to four years in prison

Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed for documenting the early days of COVID-19 in Wuhan, is nearing release after a four-year sentence, the Independent reported.

Ms Zhan, a former lawyer turned independent journalist, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020. There, she documented the Chinese government's response to the burgeoning pandemic.

Her reports shared on platforms like YouTube, WeChat, and the now-banned X (formerly Twitter), shed light on government efforts to control information and suppress criticism of their handling of the crisis.

"After 4 years in prison for her independent reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, journalist Zhang Zhan is due for release on 13 May," Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shared on X.

Concerns have been raised about China's handling of information during the initial COVID-19 outbreak. Some believe this may have slowed the international response to the emerging pandemic.

Zhang Zhan was detained in May 2020 and later sentenced to four years in prison on charges of 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble.' She has been held at the Shanghai Women's Prison since then.

In a video posted in February 2020, Ms Zhang said Wuhan was "paralysed because everything is undercover".

She continued: "That's what this country is facing now ... They imprison us in the name of pandemic prevention and restrict our freedom. We must not talk to strangers, it's dangerous. So without the truth, everything is meaningless. If we cannot get to the truth, if we cannot break the monopoly of the truth, the world means nothing to us."

Zhang Zhan's online reports included a video capturing a hospital overwhelmed with patients in the early days of the pandemic. This footage, shared when information about the virus's spread was scarce, provided a crucial glimpse into the crisis unfolding in Wuhan.

Zhang Zhan's health deteriorated significantly during her sentence. She undertook a lengthy hunger strike, forcing prison authorities to resort to forced feeding. Her lawyer reported her condition as frail, with a feeding tube. International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have condemned her imprisonment, arguing it was entirely unjust.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I doubt she was sent to jail for 4 years for reporting "nothing ever happened in Wuhan as Covid originated in some deer in rural America".

 

[Nan Yang]

I doubt she was sent to jail for 4 years for reporting "nothing ever happened in Wuhan as Covid originated in some deer in rural America".

Julian Assange already in detention for 5 years for reporting 'No war crimes occurred' in US war on terror..

 

[kankan326]

“Lawyer" and "independent journalist", people with these two titles must be agents and mouthpieces of US and funded by US NGOs. I'm 100% sure about that. They are traitors to their own countries. Only serve US interest.

We have seen too many this kind of people in countries where color revolutions happened. Beware of them. They are the biggest enemy of your country.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Julian Assange already in detention for 5 years for reporting 'No war crimes occurred' in US war on terror..
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He isn't in a US prison

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

“Lawyer" and "independent journalist", people with these two titles must be agents and mouthpieces of US and funded by US NGOs. I'm 100% sure about that. They are traitors to their own countries. Only serve US interest.

We have seen too many this kind of people in countries where color revolutions happened. Beware of them. They are the biggest enemy of your country.

What exactly could she have done to be a traitor if "nothing even happened in Wuhan".
That's the official line anyway.

That's like her saying the Chinese flag is "blue"
The officials then say "there is no blue in our flag"
Send her to prison "for being a traitor". <- What??

 

[kankan326]

What exactly could she have done to be a traitor if "nothing even happened in Wuhan".
That's the official line anyway.

That's like her saying the Chinese flag is "blue"
The officials then say "there is no blue in our flag"
Send her to prison "for being a traitor". <- What??

What she said depends on what her boss told her to say. You guys always say there is no freedom of speech in China and Chinese government controls all media. How the so-called independent journalists survive in China? Who paid them?

Citizens who serve for enemy country should be sent to prison. This is common sense.

 

[jzrmt]

What she said depends on what her boss told her to say. You guys always say there is no freedom of speech in China and Chinese government controls all media. How the so-called independent journalists survive in China? Who paid them?

Citizens who serve for enemy country should be sent to prison. This is common sense.

Citizens who serve for enemy country should be sent to prison. This is common sense.

OR INSTEAD OF PRISON, THEY SHOULD DANCE UNDER THE LAMP POSTS IN TIME HONOURED METHOD OF DEALING WITH TRAITORS

 

[Menthol]

She served 4 years in prison.

How much USA government is going to pay her?

For 4 years in prison, and lifetime reputation damage.

 

[kambhakt]

“Lawyer" and "independent journalist", people with these two titles must be agents and mouthpieces of US and funded by US NGOs. I'm 100% sure about that. They are traitors to their own countries. Only serve US interest.

We have seen too many this kind of people in countries where color revolutions happened. Beware of them. They are the biggest enemy of your country.

Why release her then. Do you release traitors.

 

[Menthol]

Why release her then. Do you release traitors.

She served her term.

In USA, she will be jailed for decades.

China is way too soft.

 

[jzrmt]

She served 4 years in prison.

How much USA government is going to pay her?

SHOULD PAY HER A GOOD PAIR OF DANCING SHOES
GUARANTEED LIFETIME WARRANTY
TO BE USED UNDER LAMP POST

 

[Menthol]

What exactly could she have done to be a traitor if "nothing even happened in Wuhan".
That's the official line anyway.

That's like her saying the Chinese flag is "blue"
The officials then say "there is no blue in our flag"
Send her to prison "for being a traitor". <- What??

She is snooping around in the government business.

And her intention and activity are also very questionable.

By just reading the words on YouTube and Twitter, I already can make a conclusion about who she is, what kind of a person she is.


Besides, since the ban of TikTok, any argument about free speech and free press, especially from USA government, USA media, and even USA citizen are already meaningless.

It's just a matter of who is serving who, who is working for who.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

What she said depends on what her boss told her to say.

She was convicted of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"

You guys always say there is no freedom of speech in China

Apparently..as this case seems to prove it.

and Chinese government controls all media. How the so-called independent journalists survive in China?

Maybe because they aren't all poor farmers anymore...some people in China actually have money. She previously worked as a lawyer.

Anyways she was one of those social media people your country has millions and millions of live streaming "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"

Citizens who serve for enemy country should be sent to prison. This is common sense.

You mean like Mao?

 

[kankan326]

She was convicted of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"



Apparently..as this case seems proves it.



Maybe because they aren't all poor farmers anymore...some have money. She previously worked as a lawyer.



That is why Mao sat in prison.

Don't talk shit. We have seen too many similar cases like this women. US uses money to bribe other countries' spineless traitors to cause unrest in their countries. US played same trick again and again.

In China, lawyers and jounalists belong to the two groups of people that are penetrated by US most. My older brother is a prestigious doctor. He is completely brainwashed by US propaganda. He told me too many stories that are obvious from US made propaganda. His opinions toward China, US, Russia, Israel, Taiwan 100% match what US told the world. Till today he still believes Russia will lose the Ukraine war in a year.

That's why I said US is the shameless country. It plays dirty trick without any morality restriction.