In a joint letter published on 17th September 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 44 human rights NGOs urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to exonerate and release Zhang Zhan, a journalist who covered the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the city of Wuhan. Zhang Zhan has been on hunger strike since May 2020, for which she was forced-fed. Zhang Zhan is at risk of dying if not immediately released.

包括无国界记者组织在内的45个非政府组织9月17日联名致信中国国家主席习近平，要求释放记者张展。张展因在新冠病毒疫情于武汉爆发的初期进行了有关疫情的报道被判刑，她从2020年5月被捕后便开始绝食抗议，近来健康严重恶化。如不立即释放张展，她可能死于狱中。

联署名单：

Reporters Without Borders 无国界记者组织
Article 19
Amnesty International 国际特赦组织
Association of Taiwan Journalists 台湾新闻记者协会
Association of the New School for Democracy 社团法人华人民主书院协会
Centre for Human Rights and Development, Mongolia
China Aid Association 对华援助协会
China Change 改变中国
China Political Prisoner Concern 中国政治犯关注
Chinese Democracy Education Foundation 中国民主教育基金会
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) 中国人权捍卫者
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) 保护记者委员会
Consumer Foundation, Mongolia
CSW, UK
FIDH, within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Freedom House 自由之家
Front Line Defenders 前线卫士
Globe International Center, Mongolia
Government Citizen Partnership, Mongolia
Humanitarian China 人道中国
Human Rights in China (HRIC) 中国人权
Human Rights Now
Human Rights Foundation 人权基金会
IFEX 国际言论自由交流网
Index on Censorship 查禁目录
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) 国际记者联盟
International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 国际人权服务社
Judicial Reform Foundation 财团法人民间司法改革基金会
LGBT Centre, Mongolia
Mongolian Men's Union
Mongolian Women's Employment Support Federation
PEN International 国际笔会
Safeguard Defenders 保护卫士
Steps Without Borders, Mongolia
Taiwan Forever Association 台湾永社
Taiwan Media Watch Foundation 台湾媒体观察教育基金会
Taiwan Media Workers Union 全国传播媒体产业工会
Tuva Women’s AVAM Union, Mongolia
The Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) 女性记者联盟
The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents's Club 台湾外籍记者联谊会
The Rights Practice
Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) 维吾尔人权项目
Women for Change NGO, Mongolia
Women's Rights in China 中国妇权
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

RSF - https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-and-44-ngo-coalition-urge-chinese-president-xi-jinping-release-covid-19-reporter-hunger-strike 

美国之音：45家NGO联名要求中国释放因报道新冠疫情入狱并绝食的记者张展https://www.voachinese.com/a/ngo-coalition-urges-china-to-release-covid-19-reporter-on-hunger-strike-20210917/6232546.html