A woman from Hebei Province, China, Zhang Wenfang, was sentenced to six months in prison on September 8 last year for her Weibo post exposing the tragic situation in Wuhan’s pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) Epidemic, in which 1,000 people shared toilets in Fangzhai Hospital. The verdict was released recently, stating that the content of his articles involved official disinformation and some unverified messages, which were widely forwarded and read, causing bad influence on the society.
According to media reports, Zhang Wenfang revealed the tragic situation of the civil society in April last year on Weibo under the name of “Marilyn Monroe”, including that 1,000 people shared a toilet in Wuhan Fangzhai Hospital, some people starved to death during quarantine, some people committed suicide for fear of infecting their families, some people committed suicide for six hours before their bodies were disposed of, and some people were punished by the police station for writing “Wearing a dress outside”. Some people were punished by the police station for writing “wear a mask when you go out” a hundred times, some people dug their own graves and hanged themselves for fear of infecting their families, and some people returned Home after being cured of serious illness and found their families dead. In September of the same year, Zhang Wenfang was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison for provocation and harassment.
Recently, the official verdict was released, stating that Zhang Wenfang fabricated false information and caused serious public disorder after it was circulated on the Internet, and should be prosecuted for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
After the trial, the court ruled that Zhang Wenfang had disseminated false information and some unverified information on the Internet that had been officially disproved, and found that she had spread the information knowing it was false, causing serious public disorder and constituting the crime of provocation and nuisance.
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