Two Chinese activists, who faced a stringent crackdown for reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, are facing punishment after being tried in a Beijing court earlier this week Two Chinese activists, who faced a stringent crackdown for reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, are facing punishment after being tried in a Beijing court earlier this week. According to South China Morning Post (SCMP), Cai Wei and Chen Mei, who pleaded guilty, archived censored articles about COVID-19 and ran an online discussion forum before they were detained in April 2020 and charged with “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”. These offenses are being increasingly used to punish a number of activists who contradicted the official narrative on the pandemic. A verdict on the two activists will be announced later, according to their families. This comes after citizen journalist Zhang Zhan was jailed for four years in December last year for the same offen...