Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years of prison for reporting on the coronavirus pandemic in defiance of official government propaganda. Journalists and Western nations have condemned the sentence. Summary A Chinese journalist who was one of the first to cover the outbreak of coronavirus in the Communist nation was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after reporting “a more dire picture of …
