TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese citizen journalist serving a four-year sentence after reporting on the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Wuhan is in ill health after staging a long-running hunger strike, according to a lawyer who spoke with her family. Her parents and brother went to Shanghai on August 2 but were only permitted to speak with her over the phone. “We just hope that she can get out of jail, because her hunger strike is really worrying,” said Peng. Hospitals in Chinese prisons under generally poorly equipped, said Jane Wang, an activist with Humanitarian China, a US-based group founded by Chinese dissidents. Zhang early on went on hunger strike, then began taking some food after her health declined, Wang said, citing one of Zhang’s lawyers.
