Zhang Zhan

Zhang Zhan (September 2, 1983 -), female, native of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, citizen journalist, Christian. Bachelor's degree in insurance and master's degree in finance from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Introduced to Shanghai as a talent in 2010; worked as a lawyer, but later had his lawyer's practicing certificate revoked because he participated in rights protection activities and participated in a signature activity to revise the Lawyers Management Measures. In 2015, he was baptized into the name of Christ. Zhang Zhan went to Wuhan as a citizen journalist in February 2020 to track and report on the COVID-19 epidemic. After his arrest in May, he was sentenced to four years in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles." Three months after he was released from prison, he was again criminally detained for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles." In 2021, he won the Freedom of Expression Honor Award from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, the 2020 Lin Zhao Freedom Award, the 21st Youth China Human Rights Award in 2021, and the Courage Award at the 2021 Press Freedom Award.