Media personality Zhang Jialong, who was sentenced to one year and six months for provoking trouble for his Twitter comments, was released from prison on February 11, according to China Rights Defense Network.
Zhang Jialong, 33, a former journalist for Caijing magazine and former media personality for Tencent’s financial channel, was summoned and raided by Chinese police in 2011 for tweeting about a strike by Beijing cab drivers. Since then, he has been repeatedly summoned, arrested, and disappeared by police for following and tweeting about human rights.
In 2014, Zhang Jialong met with then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Beijing and asked him for U.S. help in dismantling China’s Great Firewall of Internet.
In August 2019, Zhang Jialong was removed from his Home in Guiyang by police and charged with “provocation and disorderly conduct. Earlier this year, he was finally sentenced to one year and six months in prison. He was only recently released.
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