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zbb

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They just can't leave it alone! Another hatchet job from the "impartial" British government mouthpiece. AKA the BBC.

They are really working overtime on this one to deflect their own incompetence in their handling of the Covid crisis.

From the BBC:

Zhang Zhan: China jails citizen journalist for Wuhan reports

A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan's coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years.

Zhang Zhan was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", a frequent charge against activists.

The 37-year-old former lawyer was detained in May, and has been on hunger strike for several months. Her lawyers say she is in poor health.

Ms Zhang is one of several citizen journalists who have run into trouble for reporting on Wuhan.

There is no free media in China and authorities are known to clamp down on activists or whistleblowers seen as undermining the government's response to the outbreak.

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What exactly did Zhang Zhan write? I've never seen any of her writings and I wonder what was the reason for such a sentence. Despite what the Western media portrays, such sentencing are actually extremely rare in China.

For example, the Wuhan Diary is by far the most well known "citizen reporting" of the outbreak in Wuhan and is filled with sensationalistic hearsay and over-the-top negative portrayals of the government response. The writer of the Wuhan Diary, Fang Fang, had some of her posts deleted after they went viral and her Weibo account briefly suspended in February, but her account was quickly reinstated and she continued posting her diary until the end of the Wuhan lockdown was announced in late March. English and German translations of the Wuhan Diary from major western publishers were available for pre-order on Amazon.com on April 8, only two weeks after Fang Fang's last diary post on March 25, suggesting that Fang Fang's intended audience was never the Chinese public. Fang Fang has not been subjected to any legal action as of yet, despite widespread criticism of her diary in China. This makes the Zhang Zhan case really curious. What could she have written to earn her such a sentence?
 
Gatekeeper

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localizer said:
“receiving interviews from overseas media outlets, including Radio Free Asia and the Epoch Times, to "maliciously stir up the Wuhan Covid-19 epidemic situation."



Obviously trying to stir shit
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zbb said:
What exactly did Zhang Zhan write? I've never seen any of her writings and I wonder what was the reason for such a sentence. Despite what the Western media portrays, such sentencing are actually extremely rare in China.

For example, the Wuhan Diary is by far the most well known "citizen reporting" of the outbreak in Wuhan and is filled with sensationalistic hearsay and over-the-top negative portrayals of the government response. The writer of the Wuhan Diary, Fang Fang, had some of her posts deleted after they went viral and her Weibo account briefly suspended in February, but her account was quickly reinstated and she continued posting her diary until the end of the Wuhan lockdown was announced in late March. English and German translations of the Wuhan Diary from major western publishers were available for pre-order on Amazon.com on April 8, only two weeks after Fang Fang's last diary post on March 25, suggesting that Fang Fang's intended audience was never the Chinese public. Fang Fang has not been subjected to any legal action as of yet, despite widespread criticism of her diary in China. This makes the Zhang Zhan case really curious. What could she have written to earn her such a sentence?
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"Ms Zhang had previously been detained in 2019 for voicing support for activists in Hong Kong."

Talk about a busy body shit stirer. She had form. She was previously arrested. Gee. And note the BBC trying to paint her as a normal decent citizen by calling her "citizen journalist" lol. Is there such a thing? Is like that Liu Xiabo guy, labelled as lawyer! Lol. I'm more qualify as a lawyer then he ever will be. At Least I study law at uni.

The thing is you've got your beliefs, but when you try to force it on others, and given out infos that could cause panics and maybe deaths.

Then this is not on. No matter which country you're in. In the UK and the West they are laws that stop people doing this. Yet the BBC trying to put it to the audience as this is another big bad commies crap.

She is a loony bin. And I wouldn't blame the authority to lock her up and throw away the keys.
 
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Chinese must never lose focus in the pursuit of reality.
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Romanticized nonsense is the only thing that said they would be able to handle a pandemic better than anyone else. The US is a perfect example where people are in open defiance of any measures in dealing with a pandemic because it violates their own personal freedoms. So how does that say a democracy would handle it better? In Asia you have democracies and why they did better is not because of democracy. It's because of culture. The US and Great Britain have a troubled future. They can't put the genie of what they think is freedom back in the bottle that easily meaning their own individual freedom is more important than the whole. Everyone thinking about only their freedom means they're never get anything done.
 
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