China: Wuhan journalist Zhang Zhan has been jailed for four years

“She did not immediately say if she would appeal [against the sentence],” lawyer Zhang Keke said.

She was one of the few citizen journalists in China to report on the early experiences of people in Wuhan during the city’s lockdown with her live reports and essays of the chaotic initial stages of the outbreak being widely shared on social media platforms in February.

The citizen journalist wrote in one February essay that the government “didn’t give people enough information, then simply locked down the city”.

“This is a great violation of human rights,” she wrote.