Chinese prosecutors push prison for journalist who reported on coronavirus cover-up

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A Shanghai-based journalist who reported on the Chinese communist regime’s attempt to censor early reports of the emergent coronavirus faces up to five years of imprisonment, according to a new report on the prosecution’s aims.

“She is now being accused of fabricating malicious and false information about the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan and accepting interviews with overseas media,” a source told the South China Morning Post.

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