Paranoid China must prove Wuhan reporter is safe – The Times

Zhang Zhan, a journalist jailed for daring to tell the truth about what was going on in China during the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak, has disappeared. She was due to be freed from Shanghai womens prison on Monday after serving a four-year prison term but her whereabouts are unknown.

Her family said it was not convenient to reply to requests for information a form of words that in China is often taken to mean pressure from the authorities to stay silent.

Zhang risked her life to travel from her home in Shanghai to Wuhan, the epicentre of the Covid outbreak, on February 1, 2020, as China began belatedly to lock down. At that time the authorities were in denial about the scale

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Paranoid China must prove Wuhan reporter is safe - The Times