China jails citizen journalist over Wuhan videos | DW News

Zhang Zhan is paying the price for speaking out. The citizen journalist has been sentenced to four years in prison for reporting on Wuhan's COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.
Her firsthand accounts of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan challenged China's official narrative of an epidemic under control.
Security was tight at the Shanghai court where her lawyers arrived for the sentencing. Zhang was detained in May after posting videos criticizing the government's response to the outbreak. Lawyers for the 37-year-old say she has been on a hunger strike and is in poor health.

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[walid]

Julian Assange is a citizen journalist and DW news never defended him.

[kaifxaif]

It's not even surprising as it's china

[pakde]

Authoritarian regimes can't handle criticism.

[sebastianbaltazar]

She is brave anomaly in that ridiculous chinese circus regime.

[Rubin]

God bless this young lady journalist in Wuhan. It takes courage to speak truth to power.

[bryanlewis]

An America citizen was arrested and taken from her home at gun point in Florida for doing the exact same thing by the orders of an American governor in Florida . ironic isn't it "

[Ilovecruise]

Just looking at her channel and you will found out it is more like a conspiracy teller instead of the brave whistle blower

[fionaphillips]

Very brave, exposing a political system which shows one face but has many faces is a strength, fear is a hard barrier to break through. I applaud this woman, we should all be so brave.

[zanecai]

basically she said that chinese government's measures of controling the pandemic "violated human rights" and there were far more people died of the pandemic than reported by the government and etc.

[joeferreira]

Why, they need people like her. What a sham, for reporting a virus? Crazy, stupidity. Goverment lost its mind.

[isaakwang]

And this country is now on the UN Human Rights Council ladies and gentlemen

[feigao]

long live CCP. don't kneel to cancer-like freedom

[bestquotes]

she criticised the government without knowing other countries situation. If china handle the pandamic like west I donno whether she is still ali...

[lamlam]

These social media provide plenty of jobs for the people in mainland China, who write thousands of comments everyday.

[qinxinghua]

What's the definition of "citizen journalist"? Sounds like "Undocumented journalist"? LOL

[DGdescendant]

Jailed for 4 years for expressing an opinion on the virus.

Somethings wrong..

[jimmybutler]

But what would you expect from China?...

[nenanatuajt]

DW, I'm waiting for news about; Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning.

[juliechewagner]

She is brave. Hope she will be free soon.

[ttc]

I will not comment on this journalist because I have not watched her videos.
However, the backdrop used in this report showed someone demanding the release of 12 Hong Kong individuals who were charged with rioting and vandalism, and who attempted to flee Hong Kong while on bail. This case had nothing to do with the journalist.
It showed two things about DW - ignorance and prejudice.