Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan jailed for 'provoking trouble' with Wuhan reporting
Posted on 12/28/2020 6:25:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Monday, a Chinese court sentenced a lawyer-turned-citizen-journalist who traveled to Wuhan to report on COVID-19. Authorities first detained her in May after her livestream reporting in Wuhan. The government charged her with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for her reporting.
A Chinese court sentenced the journalist, 37-year-old Zhang Zhan, to four years in jail, her lawyer Zhang Keke told reporters outside the courtroom.
Zhang reportedly began a hunger strike in June, but she has been force-fed via a nasal tube.
“She said when I visited her (last week): ‘If they give me a heavy sentence then I will refuse food until the very end.’… She thinks she will die in prison,” Ren Quanniu, one of Zhang’s defense lawyers, told Agence France Press (AFP). “It’s an extreme method of protesting against this society and this environment.”
China has punished eight virus whistleblowers so far.
The Chinese Communist Party lied to cover up the coronavirus pandemic early on, and waited until after 5 million people had already left Wuhan before locking down the city at the center of the outbreak. The party also reportedly destroyed early samples of the virus and silenced doctors who tried to warn the world about it. A University of Southampton study found that if the Communist Party had enacted quarantine measures three weeks earlier, the coronavirus spread would have been reduced by 95 percent.
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When the World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted that the coronavirus might transmit from person to person, the Chinese government told the WHO to remove that statement, and the WHO complied. China requested personal protective equipment (PPE) from across the world, and received 2.4 billion pieces. Later, when other countries asked China for PPE, China extorted them — only sending valuable medical aid if political leaders agreed to publicly praise Beijing. Chinese companies also sent faulty medical gear to European countries and to the U.S. Meanwhile, the Communist Party prevented U.S. companies from shipping their own medical gear back home, where it is sorely needed.
The State of Missouri has already filed a lawsuit to hold China accountable, and there is a growing chorus of voices demanding the U.S. sue the Chinese Communist Party in an international court. China has even threatened U.S. senators by name who dared to call Beijing to account for its malfeasance. Americans want to see China held accountable.
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Wonder if Fauci will comment on why the Wuhan virus did not spread to almost all Chinese urban centers. Was it that the Chinese have been exposed to many strains of coronavirus and have some cross immunity to the Wuhan virus? Or is it something more sinister. Fauci is on record saying he admires the Chinese and is on good terms with them. Perhaps he can explain to Americans why the Wuhan virus spread like wildfire here but that there were no massive outbreaks in China where it originated.
Does anyone know if this is the same woman who’s been on War Room quite often?
They already had an antidote???
Ivermectin
This is what amazes me about the stupidity of the MSM. They are working 24/365 to promote a socialistic/communistic regime here. If they succeed, then the new government that they worked so hard to install will behave toward them in the same fashion that the CCP did toward this woman. How can they be so dumb and gullible?
“How can they be so dumb and gullible?”
The story of MSM journalists, Gullible’s Travels”
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Julian Assange has been in the cross hairs of the USA for years. Praying for a pardon but DJT has been too busy the past almost four years to defend or save a truth teller.
After the UK sham judiciary approves his extradition in a week, he will get 175 years in ADX SuperMax in Florence, CO.
But I am supposed to get upset about China?
I’m sure GooGle Twitter and FaceBook will mount a massive campaign to have her freed from her Chinese captors.
Did ya hear the one about Adam Schifty, Mao and Stalin go into a airport lounge for a drink and Schifty gets escorted out for running a scam without a state license?
No, they probably censored that story too.
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