37 year old Chang Chan was found guilty on Monday off picking quarrels and provoking trouble, her lawyer said.

Chang's first hand accounts of crowded hospitals, empty streets and interviews with residents painted a more dire picture of the situation of Wuhan in the official narrative.

But her channel on YouTube also got her in the cross hairs off Chinese authorities.

She was detained in mid May and went on hunger strike in June, court documents reveal.

Her lawyers told the court.

Police strapped her arms down and force fed her through a tube.

By December, she was suffering headaches, giddiness, stomachache, low blood pressure and a throat infection request for Bell before Monday's trial were denied.

There was tight security outside the court in Shanghai, but one man turned up to show her support before he was escorted away.

I came here to try and see her.

I went there just now, but the staff told me it's not allowed, especially not in a criminal case.

China is one of several citizen journalists who have run into trouble for reporting on Wuhan.

China has come under fire for its early handling of the pandemic, with Beijing accused of failing to warn the world about how bad the situation waas.

Since the first cases of covert were detected in Wuhan last December, the disease has spread worldwide, infecting more than 80 million people and killing over 1.7 million.