Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist, is 6 feet tall yet currently weighs less than 90 pounds because of a prolonged hunger strike while in prison. Zhang, a Shanghai native, was sentenced to a four-year jail term last December for reporting on the CCP virus outbreak in China. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, causes the COVID-19 disease. Zhang told her mother in a recent phone call that she wouldn’t end her protest until the court clears her name. In February 2020, when the virus first began spreading in China, Zhang traveled to Wuhan–the early epicenter of the outbreak. She visited local hospitals and funeral parlors, to document and livestream the daily lives of residents in the locked-down city. While being on the front line of Wuhan’s outbreak, Zhang questioned the official death toll after finding incinerators operating throughout the night at a …