Zhang Zhan

CSW calls for urgent release of critically ill activist on hunger strike

CSW urgently calls for the release of sentenced Chinese Christian human rights defender Zhang Zhan, whose health condition is in a critical state amid a continuous hunger strike against her unjust detention and imprisonment. Ms Zhang was detained by Shanghai police for her reports from Wuhan on the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020. During […]

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Seek the truth at all costs: A call for the release of Zhang Zhan on the first anniversary of her detention

These are the words of the brave Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan. For her, seeking the truth meant travelling to China’s Wuhan in February 2020, right at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. There, she published videos and articles reporting on the crisis to both Twitter and YouTube, both of which are blocked in China. Zhang’s reporting, and particularly her questioning of whether the Chinese authorities’ response to the pandemic had infringed on human rights unsurprisingly provoked the ire of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On 14 May 2020, a year ago today, she was seized by Shanghai police in her hotel room in Wuhan and taken to a detention centre in Shanghai.

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Lawyer for imprisoned citizen journalist and Hong Kong activists may have license revoked

On 4 January Ren Qiuanniu, the lawyer who defended Chinese human rights defender Zhang Zhan, received a letter from the Chinese authorities saying that his license to practice as a lawyer may be revoked. Zhang was sentenced to four years in prison on 28 December on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a charge

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Christmas in China’s prison cells: Remembering Zhang Zhan and others over the festive period

I love Christmas. I especially love the fact that it comes right in the middle of the darkest part of the year here in the UK. Just when I’ve had about enough of the cold, dark, rainy British wintertime, everything is brightened up by Christmas decorations in my neighbours’ windows, trees along our street festooned with lights, and plans for good times ahead with family and friends. 2020 is sure to be a Christmas like no other, including in the UK, but there are still things we can do to remind us of the festive spirit.

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