« on: Today at 09:00:17 AM » Highland County Press 12/31/2020U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has issued the following statement in response to reports that China will jail journalist Zhang Zhan for four years, in retaliation for Zhan’s efforts in early 2020 to document the emergence and spread of COVID-19, and announced his intention to reintroduce the “Ending Chinese Medical Censorship and Cover Ups Act,” legislation to sanction Chinese officials involved in the ongoing suppression of medical experts, journalists, and political dissidents trying to disseminate medical information:”In the early days of the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party did everything it could to cover up the severity of the outbreak, from lying about the origin of the virus and how it was being transmitted, to destroying evidence, to silencing the brave whistleblower doctors, scientists, journalists and activists who tried to warn the world and prevent a global public health crisis,” Cruz said.…

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