cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45982251
Two months after her new sentence of four more years in prison, Zhang Zhan - the blogger and Christian human rights activist who first reported on the pandemic in Wuhan - has been moved without warning to a new detention facility with no possibility of contact with her family.
This was discovered by her lawyer, who went to visit her at the Pudong Detention Centre in Shanghai and was told that it was impossible because she had been transferred. Only after Reporters Without Borders – which awarded her the Press Freedom Award in 2021 and has been following her case for some time – made the news public did the local authorities announce that she is now in the Women’s Prison, also in Shanghai but in the Songjiang district.
According to what Zhang Zhan’s mother was told, she was sent to this new location for a month of “education” and visits are not allowed.
After already serving four years in prison, on 19 September, in a closed-door trial in a Shanghai court , Zhang Zhan was again convicted on charges of disturbing social order and provoking quarrels for travelling to Gansu province to meet human rights activist Zhang Pancheng, who was arrested for participating in protests in defence of workers who had been treated unfairly.
‘We are deeply concerned about her situation,’ said Antoine Bernal of Reporters Without Borders. ‘The international community must not remain silent. It must call for an end to this shameful persecution of this heroine of journalism.’
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https://www.asianews.it/en/About-us.html
“AsiaNews is a news agency promoted by the PIME missionaries, the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.”
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“We, the PIME Missionaries, are Catholic Priests and Brothers who dedicate ourselves to be lifelong messengers of the Gospel to those who have not yet heard the Word of God.”
Fair.
The same content has also been published by RSF and others.
You may have seen other sources here in the comm, particularly wsws.org and similar propaganda media.
Oh, I don’t have a problem with the source, they aren’t listed anywhere as a questionable source, but it’s clear they have an angle on this story.
They have an angle on the story, but afaik they don’t support war, violence, nor a dictatorial regime. Some other sources here on Lemmy (including in this comm) do.