Citizen journalist detained over Wuhan reporting 'restrained and fed by tube'

Former lawyer Zhang Zhan was on hunger strike after her arrest for picking quarrels'

A citizen journalist detained for more than six months after reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has had a feeding tube forcibly inserted and her arms restrained to stop her pulling it out, her lawyer has claimed.

Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, has been on a hunger strike at a detention facility near Shanghai. Zhang was arrested in May and accused of picking quarrels and stirring up trouble", an accusation frequently used against critics and activists inside China, after reporting on social media and streaming accounts. Last month she was formally indicted on charges of spreading false information.