{"id":38668,"date":"2021-11-05T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/chinese-journalist-jailed-over-covid-reporting-is-close-to-death-family-say"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:16:50","slug":"chinese-journalist-jailed-over-covid-reporting-is-close-to-death-family-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38668","title":{"rendered":"Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting is \u2018close to death\u2019, family say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, 38, was arrested and jailed after reporting on the outbreak<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China\u2019s initial response to Covid in Wuhan is close to death after going on hunger strike, her family said, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for her immediate release.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Zhan, 38, a former lawyer, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 to report on the chaos at the pandemic\u2019s centre, questioning authorities\u2019 handling of the outbreak in her smartphone videos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/chinese-journalist-jailed-over-covid-reporting-is-close-to-death-family-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, 38, was arrested and jailed after reporting on the outbreakSee all our coronavirus coverageA citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China\u2019s initial response to Covid in Wuhan is close to death after going on hunger s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38669,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions\/38669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}