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Zhang Zhan, a Chinese citizen journalist who was sentenced to four years in prison for reporting on the epidemic in Wuhan last year, continued to protest on a half-hunger strike in prison. The latest news pointed out that she was severely malnourished and lost her weight to less than 40 kg. She was sent to the hospital on July 31.
Zhang Zhan went to hospital on a hunger strike, but his family has been unable to meet for half a year. According to the Deutsche Welle news quoted by the Central News Agency today, Wang Jianhong, a spokesperson for the Zhang Zhan Concern Group, who has long been concerned about China’s rights protection issues, shared what Zhang Zhan’s mother said on August 2nd. Zhang Zhan’s mother finally met with her daughter over the phone, but the doctor said that Zhang Zhan is currently suffering from malnutrition, his legs and feet are also very swollen. Zhang Zhan’s mother advised her daughter to eat normally on the phone, but Zhang Zhan still insisted that she was innocent and would not eat normally.
According to sources, since Zhang Zhan was transferred from the detention center to the prison, her family has not been able to obtain the right to visit the prison smoothly. Before being allowed to meet by telephone on August 2, they had been unable to see her for half a year. The report quoted Ren Quanniu, the lawyer who once represented Zhang Zhan, as saying that there are currently few other channels that can accurately grasp Zhang Zhan’s condition. Ren Quanniu said that when he met with Zhang Zhan before, Zhang Zhan always said that he would use a hunger strike to express his anger and protest, but what she protested was mainly about China’s control of speech, not for her own freedom.
Zhang Zhan worked as a lawyer in Shanghai in 2010, and was later cancelled because of his participation in rights protection activities. In February 2020, she went to Wuhan, Hubei Province to cover the new crown pneumonia virus outbreak, and published reports through WeChat, Twitter, and YouTube. In May of the same year, she was inter-provincially arrested by the Shanghai police and detained in Shanghai. On December 28, she was accused of ” “Picking trouble and provoking trouble” was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
The Central News Agency said that Zhang Zhan is the first known sentence to be sentenced for reporting the new crown pneumonia virus.
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