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Thursday 31 December 2020

Chinese journalist jailed for 4 years for speaking the truth about coronavirus pandemic

[Natural News]: When the coronavirus crisis emerged in Wuhan, journalists were on the scene reporting on the crisis as hospitals overflowed with patients and authorities tried to manage the situation.

Shanghai lawyer Zhang Zhan was one of those on hand who filmed the crowded hospitals, empty streets and a top-security lab that was carrying out experiments using bat coronaviruses.

She documented what she witnessed on the city’s streets and hospitals in essays and live streams. And when a Wuhan communist official said that city residents needed “gratitude training” to thank the Chinese Communist Party for its “efforts” to get the pandemic under control, Zhang took to the streets to ask fellow citizens if they truly felt grateful.

She said to the cameras, “Is gratitude something you can teach? If you can, it must be a fake gratitude.”

Zhang posted her reports to social media and YouTube to help others learn about the virus and the situation there. Now, she paying the price for bravely speaking the truth as she is being jailed for four years on the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” She has been detained since May and went on a hunger strike in protest; authorities brutally force-fed her and her lawyer has said she is now in poor health....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...