Un Rights Body Asks China For Release Of Scribe Reporting On Wuhan Eruption

UN Rights Body asks China for release of scribe reporting on Wuhan eruption

By Sanjeev Sharma New Delhi, Nov 19th : .The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has expressed concern about Zhang Zhan’s rapidly declining health.

 Un Rights Body Asks China For Release Of Scribe Reporting On Wuhan Eruption-TeluguStop.com

She is on hunger strike in protest of her December 2020 conviction for reporting the beginnings of the Covid-19 epidemic in Wuhan.

Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for UN human rights, stated that Zhang should be freed immediately and unconditionally.

She said that the free flow of information in crisis situations, such as those involving public health emergency, is particularly important.

Hurtado said, “We reiterated our appeal to all states that any emergency measures in response to Covid-19 pandemic, including those pertaining to freedom of speech and media freedom, are strictly necessary and proportionate to their legitimate purpose and non-discriminatory.”

Zhang was a former journalist and lawyer who had traveled to Wuhan in February 2020.She documented for three months the response of the authorities to the Covid-19 epidemic.

Videos were shot by Zhang and posted to social media, highlighting the lives of people in Wuhan.

She was taken by police to Shanghai in May 2020 and imprisoned there.

She was sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels, provoking trouble,” and she was released from jail on December 2020.

Zhang was held in detention and participated in several hunger strikes as a protest against her conviction, imprisonment, and sentencing.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights raised concern about her case publicly as well as bilaterally with Chinese authorities last year.They sought clarifications on her criminal charges as a result of her journalistic activities.

Zhang is alleged to have been forced-fed by authorities in the interim.Zhang’s health began to deteriorate over the years and is now dangerously obese.

(Sanjeev Sharma can be reached at Sanjeev.s@ians.in)

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