On Aug 28, 2024, Zhang Zhan (张展), famous for covering the first days of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020, was arrested for a second time — about 3 months after being released from jail on May 13 — and placed in Shanghai’s Pudong Detention Centre for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a criminal offence that carries up to five years in prison, following her reporting on human rights abuses by the Chinese regime.

For the past year, the journalist — a laureate of the 2021 RSF Press Freedom Award — has been cut off from the outside world, with most information about her whereabouts kept secret to prevent the international community from taking action against the appalling conditions in which she is being held.

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