A 37-year-old citizen journalist was on Monday sentenced to four years in prison by a Chinese court over her coronavirus outbreak reporting, more than a year after the virus emerged in Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was the first known person to be put on trial in China for revealing the side of the outbreak which the ruling Chinese Communist Party wanted hidden.

source https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/chinese-citizen-journalist-sentenced-for-reporting-coronavirus-outbreak/story

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