A Chinese citizen journalist who was arrested after reporting about the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan is kept in restraints 24 hours a day and force-fed by tube after going on a hunger strike in detention, her lawyer has claimed. Zhang Zhan, who criticised Wuhan government’s handling of the crisis, is facing up to five years in prison after being detained by police in May on suspicion of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, a broad-brush charge often used against activists. The 37-year-old former lawyer, who was hailed for ‘reporting the truth’ of the epidemic, had to wear restraint belts day and night and have feeding tubes forcibly inserted into her mouth and nose, her lawyer penned in a blog. Zhang Zhan’s lawyer released two file photos of Zhang Zhan (including the one above) in a blog post about the grim situation of the citizen journalist who is currently in detention in Shanghai A file photo of Ms Zhang published by her lawyer shows the independent reporter holding a piece of paper with the Chinese words ‘Don’t let China go backwards to becoming North Korea’ RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Editor of Chinese state newspaper which routinely mocks… Trump tells Hanukkah party that… Read full this story
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