{"id":8222,"date":"2021-01-14T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117734\/no-appeal-chinas-jailed-coronavirus-citizen-journalist-zhang"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:00:20","slug":"no-appeal-for-chinas-jailed-coronavirus-citizen-journalist-zhang-zhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/no-appeal-for-chinas-jailed-coronavirus-citizen-journalist-zhang-zhan\/","title":{"rendered":"No appeal for China\u2019s jailed coronavirus citizen journalist Zhang Zhan"},"content":{"rendered":"Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has given up her right to appeal against the four-year prison term imposed for her reporting from the central Chinese city of Wuhan in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to legal sources.The decision brought Zhang\u2019s case to a close this week, after the 37-year-old former lawyer was found guilty by Shanghai Pudong New Area People\u2019s Court at the end of last month. She was convicted for \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble\u201d, a broadly defined\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117734\/no-appeal-chinas-jailed-coronavirus-citizen-journalist-zhang\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has given up her right to appeal against the four-year prison term imposed for her reporting from the central Chinese city of Wuhan in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to legal sources.The decision bro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}