Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced at a brief hearing in a Shanghai court for allegedly “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for her reporting in the chaotic initial stages of the outbreak.
Controlling the information flow during an unprecedented global health crisis has been pivotal in allowing China’s communist authorities to reframe the narrative in their favour.“Zhang Zhan looked devastated when the sentence was announced,” Ren Quanniu, one of Zhang’s defence lawyers, told reporters confirming the four year jail term outside Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court on Monday morning.
“She said when I visited her , ‘If they give me a heavy sentence then I will refuse food until the very end.’ She thinks she will die in prison,” Ren said before the trial.Zhang Zhan had been live-streaming from Wuhan since February. She was detained in May. Picture: South China Morning PostPolice attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court on Monday.
“Restrained 24 hours a day, she needs assistance going to the bathroom,” Zhang Keke, who visited her on Christmas Day, wrote in a note circulated on social media.Zhang was critical of the early response in Wuhan, writing in a February essay that the government “didn’t give people enough information, then simply locked down the city”.The court said she had spread “false remarks” online, according to Zhang Keke. Rights groups have also drawn attention to her case.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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CCP control all media information, Chinese citizens are like mushrooms, keep in the dark and fed shite.
CCP needs to be contained ASAP
The funny thing is, China is poking Australia about the behaviour of a few SAS soldiers... Fucking idiots...
Oh yes don't you dare tell the truth on anything. The soulless can't handle it.
She is getting free food and accomodation?
No surprised. They fear and hate the truth.
If the 🦠 doesn’t get you the CCP will.
Disgusting. Just another example of the Communist Party's total disregard for human rights. They should be shamed for their mistreatment of their citizens.
The one that told the truth.
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