{"id":64079,"date":"2024-05-15T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-supposed-jail-release"},"modified":"2024-05-15T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:59:38","slug":"concerns-grow-for-chinese-citizen-journalist-after-supposed-jail-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64079","title":{"rendered":"Concerns grow for Chinese citizen journalist after supposed jail release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Zhan, jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan, has made no contact with outside world<\/p>\n<p>Concerns are growing about the wellbeing of one of China\u2019s most prominent citizen journalists who has failed to make contact with the outside world after she was supposed to have been released from prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/11\/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-to-be-freed-covid-wuhan-pandemic\">Zhang Zhan<\/a>, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government\u2019s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being imposed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-supposed-jail-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Zhan, jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan, has made no contact with outside worldConcerns are growing about the wellbeing of one of China\u2019s most prominent citizen journalists who has failed to make contact with the outside world after she was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,1066,457,53,669,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-freedom-of-speech","category-human-rights","category-journalist-safety","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\/64079","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64079\/revisions\/64080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}