Communist China Sentences Journalist Who Reported Government’s Wuhan Virus Malfeasance

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.”

It was Zhang’s public questioning of the government’s attempts to silence doctors and others who were outspoken about the spread of COVID-19 and her suggestions that “Wuhan’s lockdown had been enacted too harshly” that that CCP used to arrest and quiet her in May, claiming she was “making up false information.”