{"id":8702,"date":"2021-01-15T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:41:35","slug":"259-zhang-zhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/259-zhang-zhan","title":{"rendered":"259. ZHANG ZHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Name<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Zhang Zhan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sex\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Female<\/p>\n

Birth date<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1983-09-02<\/p>\n

Birth place<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Xianyang City, Shanxi Province<\/span><\/p>\n

Resident place<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Pudong New District, Shanghai City<\/p>\n

Education<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B.A in Finance at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Master of Law at Fudan University, Shanghai<\/p>\n

Profession<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Freelance, citizen journalist, and former lawyer (disbarred),\u00a0 (honorary Member of ICPC)<\/p>\n

Date of arrest<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2020-05-14 (subpoena), 2020-05-15 (criminal detention), 2020-06-19 (arrest)<\/p>\n

Organ of arrest<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Pudong\u00a0 Branch of Public Security Bureau of Shanghai \u00a0City<\/span><\/p>\n

Cause of arrest<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online dissident posts, interviews and reports on the Wuhan epidemic and video releases on YouTube and other social media<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Charge<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Picking quarrels and provoking trouble<\/p>\n

Date of sentence<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02020-12-28<\/p>\n

Organ of sentence\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Intermediate People\u2019s Court of\u00a0Shanghai City<\/p>\n

Sentence\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Four years imprisonment<\/p>\n

Defender\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Lawyers ZHANG Keke and REN Quanniu<\/p>\n

Place of jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Detention Center of\u00a0 Pudong New District, Shanghai City<\/p>\n

Situation in jail<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tortured, and so on hunger strike for several months<\/p>\n

Date of release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>2024-05-14 (?)<\/p>\n

Family contact\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/strong> SHAO Wenxia (mother)<\/p>\n

Donation to<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Case adopted by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ICPC<\/p>\n

Current Status<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Main case<\/p>\n

References<\/em><\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhang_Zhan<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117734\/no-appeal-chinas-jailed-coronavirus-citizen-journalist-zhang<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/asa17\/3496\/2021\/en\/<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-asia-55473501<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55463241<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/28\/world\/asia\/china-Zhang-Zhan-covid-convicted.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Name\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Zhang Zhan Se … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2071,2126],"views":7163,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}