Chinese journalist imprisoned for her ground-breaking coverage of the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic

[chocolatpi]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-journalist-imprisoned-for-her-ground-breaking-coverage-of-the-wuhan-covid-19-pandemic-is-close-to-death-reports-say/ar-AAQoCsW

Business Insider

Chinese journalist imprisoned for her ground-breaking coverage of the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic is 'close to death,' reports say

[e-mail] (Alia Shoaib)

11/6/21

Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison for her early coverage of COVID-19 in Wuhan.

Her family warned that Zhan is close to death from a hunger strike and will not survive the winter.

International groups have called for her release and said her sentence is a "shameful attack on human rights."

A Chinese citizen journalist jailed for her reporting in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic is at risk of dying from a hunger strike, reports say.

Zhang Zhan, a 38-year-old former lawyer, was sentenced to four years in prison in December after she traveled to Wuhan in February 2020 to document what was happening on the ground.

She had posted on social media about government officials detaining independent reporters and harassing the families of COVID-19 patients.
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[napi21]

1. Why would anybody go on a hunger strike IN JAIL just to protest? Surely the captors don't

care is you die. That would just keep you shut up permanently.

[chocolatpi]

2. Perhaps her food is purposely "tainted" and

she would rather die from starvation than diarrhea?

[littlemissmartypants]

3. The Suffragettes did it. Women subsequently got the right to vote. nt