[Epoch Times November 02, 2021](Interviews by Epoch Times reporters Yi Ru and Lin Cenxin) The Beijing Winter Olympics is approaching, and Zhang Ju, the brother of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, recently posted on Twitter to share the latest developments of Zhang Zhan. I am worried that Zhang Zhan will not be able to survive this winter. Many human rights lawyers and scholars at home and abroad urgently appealed to release Zhang Zhan.
Zhang Zhan’s mother, Ms. Shao Wenxia, met with Zhang Zhan’s video on October 28. After the meeting, she described on WeChat, “Today’s video is on, and the situation is even worse. When someone walks with support, she can’t lift her head when she talks. It’s dangerous to get medical parole!”
Zhang Zhan’s brother, Zhang Ju, said on Twitter on October 30, “My mother cried for a long time after seeing her the day before yesterday. Her face was withered and her eyes were full of sadness. Because Zhang Zhan looked ill and completely out of shape. She was in her heart. It seems that there is only God and her axioms, and the others are completely ignored.”
“Zhang Zhan is 177cm tall and currently weighs less than 40kg. She is so stubborn. I think she may not live long. In the coming cold winter, if she does not persist in the past, I hope the world will remember her as she was.”
Zhang Ju’s tweets have received a lot of sympathy and attention from the outside world over the past few days.
Lin Shengliang, a former mainland public welfare person, told reporters on November 1 that he felt sad when he saw Zhang Zhan’s tweet, “She used a tragic and majestic way similar to martyrdom to use a physical hunger strike to fight injustice, which is very remarkable. But I still hope. She can live safely and witness this absurd era.”
Before the lockdown period in Wuhan early last year, Zhang Zhan entered the local area alone to conduct an epidemic investigation and interview. The content involved the chaotic and critical life in Wuhan after the outbreak. The Epoch Times’ exclusive report, “Dissident Zhang Zhan’s 50 Days in Wuhan” mentioned that there is a big gap between the CCP’s official propaganda and her actual visit.
The Chinese Communist authorities arrested Zhang Zhan in mid-May last year and sentenced her to four years in prison on December 28 for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” While in custody, Zhang Zhan refused to plead guilty and even went on a hunger strike to protest and was “forced to feed.”
Zhang Zhan defends the right to know goes deep into Wuhan and was retaliated by the authorities
“She was in jail for social justice. In Zhang Zhan, we can see countless citizens who have been convicted of freedom of speech.” Lin Shengliang believes that at the beginning of the outbreak in Wuhan, the authorities admitted that due to disclosures by citizen reporters. Part of the fact that the epidemic has spread.
“She rushed to the Wuhan epidemic-stricken area regardless of personal gains and losses, and disclosed the situation on the scene to the outside world. In a sense, Zhang Zhan, Fang Bin, Chen Qiushi, Li Wenliang and others saved many Chinese lives.” Lin Shengliang said .
Wu Shaoping, a Chinese human rights lawyer in the United States, told The Epoch Times on November 1 that Zhang Zhan used a hunger strike to express her disobedience and disapproval, as well as her resistance and resistance to the CCP system.
Wu Shaoping said that citizen journalists such as Zhang Zhan and Fang Bin only made a voice different from the authorities because they went deep into the front line of the epidemic and reported on the lives of the people and social order. The authorities would eliminate them.
Just as Dr. Li Wenliang was interviewed, Chen Qiushi was detained, Zhang Zhan was sentenced, Fang Bin was missing, and 11 people including Beijing Xu Na and Li Zongze were also detained for photographing street scenes during the epidemic. Wu Shaoping said that the CCP’s move is to deprive the people of their right to know and conceal the true situation of the epidemic from the world.
The CCP’s actions arouse attention and anger at home and abroad
“When Zhang Zhan was dying due to a hunger strike, she was not granted medical parole, and her wrong judgment was not corrected.” Wu Shaoping believes that the Chinese Communist Party’s approach is causing concern and anger at home and abroad.
Guo Yuhua, a teacher in the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University, urged on Twitter: “Life is paramount, immediately let Zhang Zhan go outside for medical treatment!”
Chinese social movement scholar Ai Xiaoming also raised a placard: “Zhang Zhan is not guilty and should be released.”
Cai Xia, a former professor of the Communist Party School of the Communist Party of China, called for Zhang Zhan to seek medical treatment immediately! The international community is paying attention to Zhang Zhan.
Guangdong lawyer Huang Simin also tweeted to recall the interaction with Zhang Zhan. Many Chinese lawyers, public interest figures, dissidents, artists and scholars have tweeted to follow Zhang Zhan.
At present, the joint signature of “Reporting the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic and releasing citizen journalist Zhang Zhan” on the petition website “Change.org” has been signed by nearly 3,000 people.
Human rights lawyers and public interest activists call for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics
Wu Shaoping said that apart from Zhang Zhan, citizen reporter Fang Bin has no news at present and his life or death is unknown, which is very worrying.
“On the human rights issue of the CCP, it is really difficult for us to imagine that the International Olympia Games will be held in such a country. We call on more countries and international organizations to stand in the protection of human rights and boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics. Refuse to participate, refuse to support the CCP’s totalitarian regime in disguise.”
Lin Shengliang believes that the Beijing Winter Olympics is a hard day for countless petitioners and human rights lawyers, and they will be severely asked to silence them.
“The Beijing Winter Olympics is about to be held. The Chinese Communist Party will persecute people of justice and conscience even more frantically, suppress petitioners and human rights lawyers. Because these warriors have shown the real information of China to the outside world, the international community will pay more attention to China’s human rights situation.”
Lin Shengliang stated that he posted Zhang Zhan’s information on WeChat and was blocked in just one second.
He appealed, “Even a weak woman like Zhang Zhan, just because she disclosed the truth, the authorities will not let it go. I call on the outside world to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics.” .”
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