A court in Shanghai handed down a four-year prison sentence to a lawyer-turned-citizen-journalist this week. Zhang Zhan reported and posted videos from Wuhan during the spring when the Chinese government was still trying to get control of the coronavirus outbreak. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor, in Shanghai, tells host Marco Werman about the trial.
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