indictment sheet(名詞)起訴書
Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old Chinese citizen journalist covering Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak, is now facing up to four years in jail. The indictment sheet alleges that she sent “false information through text, video and other media through WeChat, Twitter and YouTube.” She is also accused of “maliciously spreading” information about the virus in Wuhan. Detained in May and having been on hunger strike for several months, she is now physically weak, according to one of her lawyers Ren Quanniu.
現年三十七歲的中國公民記者張展獲判刑4年,是迄今因報導武漢肺炎疫情,而被判刑的首例。檢方在起訴書中指控她「藉由文字、影片及社群媒體,發布大量虛假信息、惡意炒作武漢病毒疫情。」今年五月她即遭拘留,為抗議不公,張展絕食抗議數月,根據她其中一個律師的說法,她目前身體狀況非常虛弱。
intimidate(動詞)威嚇;脅迫
Before her arrest, she said in a video interview with an independent filmmaker that she decided to travel to Wuhan reporting after an online post by a local resident during the outbreak. She then began documenting what she saw on the streets and hospitals in livestreams, and her reports were widely shared on social media. Her reports also covered the detention of other independent journalists and the harassment of families of victims who were seeking accountability. It seems that “the Chinese government is very determined to silence her and intimidate other citizens who tried to expose what happened in Wuhan,” said Leo Lan, a research and advocacy consultant at the CHRD (Chinese Human Rights Defenders).
在被逮捕前,她曾在一個與獨立電影製作者的訪談中表示,她決定要去武漢追蹤一則當地居民在疫情爆發時張貼的文章。她今年二月即前往武漢採訪疫情,忠實報導所見所聞,她的發文在社群媒體上廣為流傳。她同時也報導政府拘留其他獨立記者,及對要求賠償的受害者家屬進行騷擾等事件。「中國人權捍衛者」組織的研究顧問藍寧說,張展的判決結果「令人震驚」,「中國政府非常堅決地要讓她閉嘴,並恐嚇其他試圖揭露武漢事件的民眾」。
(本單元由臺北市立景美女中陳如慧老師提供)