The U.S. human rights organization China Aid announced the awarding of the 2020 Lin Zhao Freedom Award to Chinese citizen journalist and lawyer Zhang Zhan. Zhang was arrested and sentenced to prison for reporting from Wuhan during the early stages of the epidemic.
The China Aid Association announced on May 14 that the jury of the Association’s “Lin Zhao Freedom Award” unanimously approved the award of the 2020 Lin Zhao Freedom Award to Ms. Zhang Zhan, a lawyer and citizen journalist, for traveling to Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, and even to the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, during the outbreak of the New Coronavirus. She was able to travel to Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, and even to the vicinity of the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research to photograph the real conditions she saw at the time, showing the world a true picture of the early stages of the outbreak in Wuhan.
Zhang was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison by the Chinese Communist authorities for reporting on the outbreak, the association said. But Zhang’s care for the victims of the New Coronavirus and his fearlessness against the Chinese Communist Party’s power have touched the world.
In particular, China Aid said, “The arbitrary arrest, torture, and trial of lawyer Zhang Zhan, a Christian citizen journalist, and his heavy four-year sentence by the Chinese Communist authorities are an extension of the year-long cover-up of Wuhan pneumonia.
The China Aid Association is scheduled to hold the 2020 Lin Zhao Freedom Award ceremony in Washington, D.C., this fall.
According to the Central News Agency, one person will be selected each year for the “Lin Zhao Freedom Award” and will be awarded a certificate and a prize of 25,000 yuan; if he or she is unable to receive the award in person, the award will be given to his or her family. Last year’s winner of the Lin Zhaoge Freedom Award was Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
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