At the time, Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer turned citizen journalist, embodied the Chinese people’s hunger for unfiltered information about the epidemic. On Monday, she will go to court, in the first known trial of a chronicler of China’s coronavirus crisis. When one of them, Zhang Ke Ke, visited her in jail this month, he saw that her hands had been tied with restraints, according to a post on his WeChat account. Zhang Zhan explained that the guards periodically inserted a feeding tube and had bound her hands so she could not pull it out, Zhang Ke Ke wrote. Zhang Zhan said she felt dizzy and had stomachaches, Zhang Ke Ke continued.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2020 10:07 UTC