Fear that Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan could be tortured in prison for reporting on COVID

Fear that Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan could be "tortured in prison" for reporting on COVID
By Grace Qi, Ramy Inocencio
Updated on: February 5, 2021 / 6:44 AM
/ CBS News
Chinese journalist restrained and fed by tube
Beijing — Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, has given up hope of avoiding her four-year prison sentence for reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan early last year. A year after Zhang arrived in Wuhan, risking both arrest and her own health to tell people what was happening in the city believed by many to be ground zero of the pandemic, her lawyer told CBS News "the case is closed," and she's not looking at any further legal options.

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