At her trial on Monday, Zhang was in a wheelchair. Her lawyer also said she ‘lost a significant amount of weight and was almost unrecognizable.’
Communist China sentenced a citizen journalist who reported on China’s early COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Zhang Zhan shared video footage of overwhelmed hospitals in the virus-stricken city and challenged the state-controlled media’s narrative about the virus, criticizing the Chinese Communist’s Party response to the outbreak. “The government’s way of managing this city has just been intimidation and threats,” she documented in one of her videos. “This is truly the tragedy of this country.
