She was sentenced on Friday in Shanghai to four years in prison after reporting on human rights abuses committed by the Chinese regime, according to several human rights organizations, including Reporters Without Borders, to AFP.
Zhang Zhan was released in May 2024 after serving a four-year prison sentence for sounding the alarm on how the coronavirus in Wuhan was handled at the beginning of the pandemic.
A group of European and North American diplomats had requested to attend the trial but they were rejected on the grounds that their actions were not in order.
The charge "picking quarrels and causing trouble" is used in China to silence dissenters and has a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
