A citizen journalist who shined a light on the pandemic in Wuhan may die in prison
"If she does not make it past the coming winter, I hope the world will remember her as she once was," Zhang Zhan's brother said. She posted videos of Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic.
BEIJING — A lawyer-turned-citizen-journalist in China who posted videos on social media from Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic is on the verge of dying in prison after staging a months-long hunger strike, according to her family and her lawyer.
Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer and to four years prison that December for filming videos from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus was first discovered in humans.
