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Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authorities

A Chinese citizen journalist who has been in prison for four years after reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 epidemic in Wuhan is due to be released on Monday.

Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 to document the Chinese government’s response to what became the start of a global pandemic. She shared her reports on X (then known as Twitter), YouTube and WeChat. She was one of the few independent Chinese reporters on the ground as Wuhan and the rest of China went into lockdown.

In one video, recorded in February 2020, Zhang said: “I can’t find anything to say except that the city is paralysed because everything is under cover. That’s what this country is facing now … They imprison us in the name of pandemic prevention and restrict our freedom. We must not talk to strangers, it’s dangerous. So without the truth, everything is meaningless. If we cannot get to the truth, if we cannot break the monopoly of the truth, the world means nothing to us.”

In another video, she showed a hospital that was overflowing with patients on trolleys in the hallway.

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 51 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Many posters on Lemmy make clear to me china doesn't have these types of issues. What gives?

Glad she's out, hope she is able to leave the country, if she wishes.

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah. You're on lemmy.world. You won't find many of them here.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That shouldn't be made clear to you because it's false, China has piles of issues of every kind from homelessness to internment camps to wealthy elite.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm being facetious, the overnight ml-lemmygrad-hexbear types chirp that message

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even worker and labor protection issues. That's the entire reason in fact that US companies like to go with Chinese labor. It costs far less because the workers don't get paid as much and don't have the labor protections that Western countries do.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -1 points 6 months ago

Not as true as it was a couple of decades ago, they've been shifting to Taiwan lately, but yeah.

[–] Cyberjin@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Don't fall for it, there is a lot of Chinese propaganda and damage control on social media.

China has a lot issues and Chinese people are fleeing their country

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/11/soaring-number-risk-death-to-flee-xi-china-for-us/

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/2/22/disillusioned-about-china-more-chinese-aim-for-us-via-risky-darien-gap