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“THERE IS ONLY one outlet for truth, which makes all other voices rumours.” So declared Zhang Zhan, a Chinese journalist who, at the height of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, offered first-hand accounts that often contradicted the government s official narrative. In the end, the government agreed with her, and deemed her a rumour-merchant. Ms Zhang was arrested in May for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, an offence often used to prosecute activists and dissidents, and later charged with spreading “false information”. On December 28th the 37-year-old was sentenced to four years in prison.
Ms Zhang is one of at least 274 journalists imprisoned globally in 2020, according to an annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based advocacy group a record high. For the second year in a row China locked away most, with 47 journalists behind bars on December 1st. Turkey came in second place, with 37. Some 12% of reporters jailed