Published: May 23rd, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Chinese blogger and former lawyer Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years. Zhang was arrested in the spring of 2020 for her critical coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. „The police released me from prison at 5 a.m. on May 13 and took me to my older brother’s house in Shanghai,“ Zhang stated in a video released by Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday.