To be a Chinese journalist working in communist China can be tough! Here is another example.
"Journalist Zhang Zhan, previously imprisoned for four years for her independent reporting on the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak in the city of Wuhan in Central China, has been detained again.
On 1 September, independent Chinese news website Weiquanwang revealed that Zhang Zhan is being held in Pudong Detention Center in Shanghai. The journalist was apprehended by police while she was travelling to her hometown in northwest China on 28 August. Since that time she has not answered her phone or updated her social media accounts where she had recently resumed posting.
The reasons for her detention are unclear, but in the weeks prior to this incident, Zhang Zhan had been sharing news about the harassment of other activists in China on social media. She had also travelled to the province of Gansu to persuade the mother of a recently arrested activist to sign a power of attorney. ..."
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