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Four-year Jail Term for Citizen Journalist's COVID Reporting in China

Joyce Huang

   TAIPEI - A court in Shanghai, China on Monday sentenced former lawyer
   and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison for her
   reporting on the coronavirus outbreak, a harsh sentence that legal
   scholars say is aimed at having a chilling effect on Chinese rights
   activists.

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