Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday urged Beijing to release a dangerously ill Chinese citizen journalist who was imprisoned over her reporting of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhang, a 38-year-old former lawyer, began reporting on the ground in Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s outbreak, in early February 2020. She was handed a four-year jail sentence on Dec. 28 last year on the grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Her reporting was among a handful of people whose firsthand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painted a more dire picture of the pandemic epicenter than the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) narrative. In dozens of shaky cell phone videos uploaded on YouTube, Zhang detailed her visits and interviews in hospitals, quarantine centers, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which challenged the Chinese regime’s rhetoric. United Nations human rights experts on Nov. 22 said that she has been left barely able to …