Chinese Covid whistleblower is sentenced to 4 more years in jail, group says

A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the Covid-19 outbreak from the pandemic’s epicenter was sentenced on Friday to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said. 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, the international press freedom group, known by its French initials RSF, said Saturday.