Chinese journalist, who wept on air over Shinzo Abe’s loss of life, makes an attempt suicide after being cyber-bullied

A Chinese journalist allegedly tried to kill herself after she obtained an onslaught of criticism from Chinese nationals for an emotional reportage on the killing of Shinzo Abe.

The journalist, Zeng Ying, was brutally trolled by Chinese netizens for sobbing whereas reporting dwell on Shinzo Abe’s assassination earlier this month.

Many Chinese netizens thought Ying exhibiting feelings on her dwell stream for Shanghai’s on-line media outlet The Paper was “unprofessional” and “unpatriotic”, in keeping with a report by the Independent.

She was criticized for not contemplating the stance of the Chinese individuals relating to Abe’s controversial political legacy.

This is the second a Chinese reporter is preventing to carry again tears throughout a dwell broadcast masking the loss of life of Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe.

This second and the reporter in query grew to become a much-discussed subject right this moment on Weibo, the place she’s accused of being unpatriotic. pic.twitter.com/qTx7Q4YdKu

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She later wrote a put up on her Weibo account wherein she apologized for her “lack of professionalism” and for placing her “personal feelings on display on this public platform.”

DDBK, the Tokyo-based firm Ying based, mentioned that she had been in deep “physical and psychological pain,” the South China Morning Post reported.

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Earlier this week, Chen Lan, Ying’s good friend, shared an alleged suicide be aware from the reporter on her Weibo social media account. She mentioned that Ying had posted the be aware on her WeChat account. She additionally confirmed that Ying had been admitted to a hospital.

SHINZO ABE ASSASSINATION

On July 8, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot whereas campaigning. Abe, 67, was on stage, delivering a speech in Nara when he was shot within the chest. He was rushed to a hospital bleeding, the place he later succumbed.

Security officers on the scene tackled the gunman and a 41-year-old suspect was arrested.

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, held workplace in 2006 for one yr and once more from 2012 to 2020 when he was compelled to step down because of the debilitating bowel situation ulcerative colitis.

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