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Zhang Zhan

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Zhang Zhan is a citizen journalist who is currently serving a second prison sentence on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles,” for which she was detained in September 2024 and sentenced in September 2025. She previously served four years from May 2020 to May 2024 on the same charges for her reporting on Covid-19. During this time she went on a hunger strike, which ended after being force fed. She was also previously arrested in September 2019 for solidarity with Hong Kong protesters.