{"id":74312,"date":"2025-09-19T02:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/18\/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-facing-second-trial"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:36:01","slug":"zhang-zhan-who-is-the-chinese-citizen-journalist-facing-a-second-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74312","title":{"rendered":"Zhang Zhan: who is the Chinese citizen journalist facing a second trial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former lawyer was outspoken about China\u2019s response to the Covid pandemic<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed after reporting from the frontlines of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is to face trial for a second time, according to human rights activists and media freedom groups.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Zhan, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-supposed-jail-release\">released from prison in May 2024<\/a> after serving four years behind bars, is expected to go on trial on Friday at the Shanghai Pudong New Area people\u2019s courtfor \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d, a catch-all term used to target government critics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/18\/zhang-zhan-chinese-citizen-journalist-facing-second-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former lawyer was outspoken about China\u2019s response to the Covid pandemicA Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed after reporting from the frontlines of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is to face trial for a second time, according to human rights &#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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74312","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=74312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74312\/revisions\/74347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}