Chinese journalist imprisoned for her Covid reporting due to be released after four years. But will she be free?

CNN ^ | 5/13/24 | Nectar Gan

[DallasBiff]

Hong Kong CNN —

A Chinese citizen journalist who has been behind bars for four years over her reporting on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is due to be released Monday after serving her sentence, according to supporters and a court verdict.

Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the few independent Chinese journalists reporting in Wuhan after the metropolis of 11 million people went into a complete lockdown, offering a rare, unfiltered glimpse into the reality on the ground as Chinese authorities imposed tight censorship on media coverage.

She was detained in May 2020 and sentenced months later to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – a charge commonly used by the Chinese government to target dissidents and human rights activists.

[DallasBiff]

God bless her, I guess we will never know how many died from the leak from the Wuhan lab.

[PIF]

But will she be free?

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Only if she gets special permission to join all her other friends crossing our southern border.

[drypowder]

I surmise that China will loose her for propaganda purposes only to give her the unmarked white van death service which common for their political dissidents.

[ifinnegan]

They remain under house arrest or 24 hour surveillance.

[Robert DeLong]

I contend it wasn’t a leak, it was a release that was done deliberately.

[null and void]

My SWAG is deliberately, but unauthorized.

[Robert DeLong]

Oh it was authorized, and it was approved at the highest levels of several nations. many of those nations we consider to be “friends”, and insiders of our nation who were out of positions of power but needed to regain control of the levers of power. That is why many of them are threatening to leave if Trump is reelected.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Unless someone from China has absolutely no friends, family, coworkers, etc, they will never be ‘free’ no matter where they are located physically. Most entities based on tyranny and hate never forgive or forget transgressions. Whether it is the democRATS, the Chicoms, the DemoKKKrats, the islamofascistnazis; they hate, and hate, and hate. Many Leftists openly praise the Chicoms, stating that in the Chicom way of ruling “things get done.” The Leftists envy the Chicom power over their chattel (for those of you in Rio Linda, the Chinese people are considered and treated like chattel)