Category Archives: China

Name                       Zhang Zhan

Sex                            Female

Birth date              1983-09-02

Birth place             Xianyang City, Shanxi Province

Resident place      Pudong New District, Shanghai City

Education              B.A in Finance at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Master of Law at Fudan University, Shanghai

Profession               Freelance, citizen journalist, and former lawyer (disbarred),  (honorary Member of ICPC)

Date of arrest          2020-05-14 (subpoena), 2020-05-15 (criminal detention), 2020-06-19 (arrest)

Organ of arrest      Pudong  Branch of Public Security Bureau of Shanghai  City

Cause of arrest       Online dissident posts, interviews and reports on the Wuhan epidemic and video releases on YouTube and other social media

Charge                       Picking quarrels and provoking trouble

Date of sentence     2020-12-28

Organ of sentence  Intermediate People’s Court of Shanghai City

Sentence                    Four years imprisonment

Defender                   Lawyers ZHANG Keke and REN Quanniu

Place of jail              Detention Center of  Pudong New District, Shanghai City

Situation in jail      Tortured, and so on hunger strike for several months

Date of release        2024-05-14 (?)

Family contact        SHAO Wenxia (mother)

Donation to

Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status        Main case

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zhan
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3117734/no-appeal-chinas-jailed-coronavirus-citizen-journalist-zhang
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa17/3496/2021/en/
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-55473501
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55463241
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/world/asia/china-Zhang-Zhan-covid-convicted.html