China suffocating Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan to death for exposing outbreak of Covid at Wuham

The Chinese government has remained adamant to the unjust incarceration of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who leaked the outbreak of coronavirus at the Wuham Laboratory in China.

The family of Zhang, a 38-years old lawyer, has cried out that Chinese citizen journalist, Zhang Zhan, is critically weak and close to death as she continues hunger strike for her unjust incarceration after she exposed the reality of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China.

The Chinese went after Zhan as she travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 to report on the pandemic centres from the epicenter, Wuhan, China. The Citizen Journalist in her reports, interrogated the handling of the pandemic by the Chinese authorities.

Citizen Journalist Zhang had used her mobile phone to record and share shocking revelations of bedridden Covid patients who were lined up in hospital corridors in the beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan.

Amnesty campaigner, Gwen Lee, had protested that police officers and other Chinese officials who tried to stop Zhang from recording and sharing those videos and images manhandled and intimidated the Citizen Journalist.

Amnesty campaigner Gwen Lee complained that China did not allow the investigation of Zhang to go on for too long.

“Her mission came at a great cost, and she was detained by Chinese authorities in May 2020. “After being detained for nearly seven months, in December she was then sentenced to jail for four years on the charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” Gwen Lee lamented.

Citizen Journalist Zhang began a hunger strike after her arrest to protest the inhumane and illegal treatment being given to her.

A member of the legal team representing Zhang, Zhang Keke, had stated: “By not eating, she wants to protest against the illegal nature of her treatment.

“She believes that not eating is a way to tell them they are wrong.”

The lawyer had protested that Zhang Zhan was being force fed through nasal tubes.

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The family of Zhang now cried out that she is severely underweight, expressing fear that “there are higher chances that she may not live for much longer.”

Brother of the Citizen Journalist, Zhang Ju, decried on his Twitter account that, “Zhan is 177cm tall, now, she has less than 40kg wt.

“She may not survive the coming cold winter. I hope the world remembers how she used to be.”

Amnesty International has berated the Chinese authorities for what it called a ‘shameful attack on human rights’. The global human rights watchdog agitated for the  immediate release of Zhan, a former lawyer.

Amnesty International in a statement demanded: “Release her immediately so that she can end her hunger strike and receive the appropriate medical treatment she desperately needs.”

Amnesty campaigner Gwen Lee had warned that “If Zhang Zhan dies in prison, her blood will be on the Chinese government’s hands.”