Announcement from Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court on October 28, 2021, Judges Wu Zhiyong, Judges Ni Hongxia and Wang Xiao public trial resulted in sentencing defendant Ding and four others to imprisonment for the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks for KIWI shoe polish.
Christian reporter Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty by Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble due to her reporting on the COVID crisis in Wuhan. | YouTube/DW
A Christian reporter who saw her work as God’s will has been sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai after she documented the coronavirus outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty by Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court on Monday morning of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” the South China Morning Post reports. The sentence is often used to silence dissidents.
Updated Dec. 28, 2020 8:44 am ET
HONG KONG A Chinese court imposed a four-year prison term on a citizen journalist who documented how Covid-19 ravaged the city where the coronavirus was first detected, in a case that underscores the lengths to which Beijing has defended its official narrative of the pandemic.
Zhang Zhan, 37 years old, was convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after a roughly 2½-hour trial at the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court on Monday, where prosecutors accused her of spreading falsehoods about the coronavirus pandemic through social-media posts and interviews with overseas media, her lawyers said.
The verdict came more than seven months after authorities detained Ms. Zhang in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the pandemic’s original epicenter, where she posted more than 120 YouTube videos chronicling conditions in the city and detailed what she saw as missteps in the government’s initial pandemic response.