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Status of Chinese citizen journalist who reported on COVID unknown on day of expected prison release

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Status of Chinese citizen journalist who reported on COVID unknown on day of expected prison release

The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists. Zhang Zhan, who had been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking … Read more

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

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Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

BEIJING: The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the virus … Read more