Page:Congressional Record 167(4).pdf/76

January 6, 2021

“A Chinese court imposed a four-year prison term on a citizen journalist who documented how Covid–19 ravaged the city where the coronavirus was first detected…

“Zhang Zhan, 37 years old, was convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after a roughly 2½-hour trial… where prosecutors accused her of spreading falsehoods about the pandemic through social-media posts…

“Her detention dovetails with Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s campaign to recast the