Chinese Journalist Receives Second Four-Year Sentence for Covid-19 reporting

A chinese journalist who was initially sentenced to four years in prison for reporting on the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak from its epicenter has received another four-year sentence, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Zhang Zhan, 42, was convicted on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – the same charges that led to her initial detention in December 2020. She had reported firsthand on the early spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan, the central Chinese city were the pandemic originated.