Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan reported on the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Photo: AP PHOTO

A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak from the pandemic's epicentre has been sentenced to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders says.

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Zhang Zhan, 42, was sentenced on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in China - the same charge that led to her December 2020 imprisonment after she posted first-hand accounts from the central city of Wuhan on the early spread of coronavirus, th

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