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A Chinese citizen journalist who was arrested after reporting the truth about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan was today jailed for four years.
Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty of picking quarrels and provoking trouble for her criticism of the Wuhan government s handling of the crisis at the peak of the outbreak.
Ms Zhang - the first citizen journalist known to have been tried - was among a handful of people whose firsthand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painted a more dire picture of the pandemic epicentre than the official narrative.
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, 37, who was arrested after reporting the truth about the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan has been jailed for four years