A novelist who revealed early details about the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January 2020 has been banned from writing and faces "total censorship".
Fang Fang's phone is tapped and she is subject to surveillance whenever she leaves her house.
The professional writer has also been banned from speaking to foreign media and cannot participate in any social activities, publish any essays, have any of her new work published or her old work reprinted.
