{"id":26128,"date":"2020-12-28T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/28\/wuhan-citizen-journalist-jailed-for-four-years-in-chinas-christmas-crackdown"},"modified":"2020-12-28T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:07:05","slug":"wuhan-citizen-journalist-jailed-for-four-years-in-chinas-christmas-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26128","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan citizen journalist jailed for four years in China&#8217;s Christmas crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecution of 10 Hong Kongers detained in mainland China after allegedly attempting to flee to Taiwan also began on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist who was arrested in May while reporting from Wuhan, has been sentenced to four years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang was arrested for \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d \u2013 an accusation commonly used against dissidents, activists and journalists \u2013 with her video and blog reports from the Wuhan lockdown. Last month she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/16\/citizen-journalist-facing-jail-in-china-for-wuhan-covid-reporting-zhang-zhan\">charged with disseminating false information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/28\/wuhan-citizen-journalist-jailed-for-four-years-in-chinas-christmas-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecution of 10 Hong Kongers detained in mainland China after allegedly attempting to flee to Taiwan also began on MondayZhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist who was arrested in May while reporting from Wuhan, has been sente&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128\/revisions\/26146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}