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Lawyer Rin Chanyu told reporters that a court in Shanghai, eastern China, convicted Zhangshan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, after being convicted of “inciting a riot” during a trial that lasted a few hours.
The lawyer told AFP that Zhang “looked very sad when the verdict was announced.” The phrase “inciting trouble” is used against opponents of President Xi Jinping’s regime.
In practice, the court accused her of spreading false information on the Internet, another lawyer, Zhang Keiki, told France Press. In articles posted on the Internet, Zhang particularly condemned the quarantine imposed in Wuhan, referring to a “grave violation of human rights.”
About a dozen foreign diplomats and supporters of Chang tried unsuccessfully to enter the courtroom, but the police expelled them along with the journalists.
Zhang’s lawyers said their client had been on a hunger strike since last June and was force-fed with a nasal tube.
Zhang was originally from Shanghai and went to Wuhan, where the Corona epidemic was spreading last February, and has posted video reports on social media, especially related to the chaos in hospitals.
Official figures indicate that four thousand deaths were recorded in Corona in Wuhan, the large city with a population of 11 million people, that is, most of the deaths that were recorded in all of China between January and May and amounted to 4,634 Since then the number of deaths has not changed nationally. .
China’s initial response to the early days of the epidemic faced severe criticism, as Beijing waited until January to impose a stone on Wuhan and its region, while the first infections were recorded in December 2019.
Meanwhile, Chinese police have questioned doctors who spoke about the emergence of a mysterious virus and accused them of “spreading rumors.”
In addition to Zhangshan, three other citizen journalists, Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin and Li Zihua, were arrested for covering the same events. AFP could not contact his lawyers.
