Chinese Citizen Journalist Sentenced to 4 Years Prison/Reported Wuhan Corona Outbreak

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/28/asia/china-journalist-zhang-zhan-intl-hnk/index.html Chinese journalist who documented Wuhan coronavirus outbreak jailed for 4 years By James Griffiths and Nectar Gan, CNN 1 hr ago I earned $100,000 in 2019, but far less in 2020. Why did I not get a stimulus check… Government shutdown to take effect Monday night CNN logoChinese journalist who documented Wuhan coronavirus outbreak jailed for 4 years An independent Chinese journalist who reported from Wuhan at the height of the initial coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years by a Shanghai court, her lawyer said Monday. a group of people looking at a phone: Police attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan was set for trial in Shanghai on December 28, 2020.© LEO RAMIREZ/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Police attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan was set for trial in Shanghai on December 28, 2020. A former lawyer, Zhang Zhan traveled to the central Chinese city in February to report on the pandemic and subsequent attempts to contain it, just as the authorities began reining in state-run and private Chinese media. She disappeared from Wuhan in May and was later revealed to have been detained by police in Shanghai, a city more than 640 kilometers (400 miles) away, and charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," an offense commonly used to target journalists and human rights activists. Zhang is the first citizen journalist known to have been sentenced for her role in reporting on the coronavirus pandemic.