{"id":39081,"date":"2021-11-20T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/un-urges-china-to-free-seriously-ill-journalist-jailed-over-wuhan-covid-reporting"},"modified":"2021-11-20T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:15:47","slug":"un-urges-china-to-free-seriously-ill-journalist-jailed-over-wuhan-covid-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39081","title":{"rendered":"UN urges China to free seriously ill journalist jailed over Wuhan Covid reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, who is on a hunger strike, was imprisoned after questioning authorities\u2019 handling of outbreak in city<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has urged China to release a citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of the country\u2019s Covid-19 response and who her family say is close to death after a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>The UN rights office voiced alarm at reports that 38-year-old Zhang Zhan\u2019s health was deteriorating rapidly and that her life was at serious risk from the hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/un-urges-china-to-free-seriously-ill-journalist-jailed-over-wuhan-covid-reporting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, who is on a hunger strike, was imprisoned after questioning authorities\u2019 handling of outbreak in cityThe United Nations has urged China to release a citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of the country\u2019s Covid-19 respo&#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":[41,50,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39081","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=39081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39081\/revisions\/39082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}