Chinese Covid whistleblower sentenced to 4 more years in jail, group says

Zhang was initially arrested after months of posting accounts, including videos, from crowded hospitals and empty streets that painted a more dire early picture of the disease than the official narrative.

A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the Covid -19 outbreak from the pandemic’s epicentre was sentenced on Friday to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said.