September 19, 2024

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Chinese journalist jailed for 4 years for experiences on coronavirus

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Image Source : TWITTER Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan jailed for 4 years for experiences on coronavirus  Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan has been sentenced to 4 years in jail months after her arrest for reporting on coronavirus. The 37-year-old was arrested in May whereas reporting from Wuhan. Zhang was final month charged with disseminating false info. On Monday afternoon, Zhang’s lawyer mentioned she had been sentenced to 4 years in jail. According to experiences, Zhang, a former lawyer, was sentenced at a short listening to in a Shanghai court docket. Zhang’s reside experiences and essays have been circulated extensively on social media platforms in February. It drew consideration of Chinese authorities are she was arrested. Zhang by way of her experiences criticised the China authorities’s response to the pandemic.  Notably, China has congratulated itself for “successfully” containing the unfold of virus within the nation. The novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan and has unfold all through the world, inflicting a pandemic. The virus has contaminated 86,976 individuals in China and claimed 4,634 lives. However, there are experiences that China has suppressed the information and that the figures are larger than reported by the federal government.  The virus has contaminated over 8 million individuals worldwide and killed 1.76 million. Latest World News