A novelist who revealed early details about the 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.
The 67-year-old, whose real name is Wang Fang, has lived in Wuhan since her early childhood.
She began writing about the coronavirus outbreak after an editor of a Chinese literary journal asked her to produce a record of the lockdown.
Fang said: "That gave me the impetus to start recording things, I began to post a record of what was happening. The diary seemed to provide consolation for many readers."
She also wrote about the outbreak on Weibo - the Chinese equivalent of - and her posts were read by tens of millions of people.
Fang gave an insight into chaos and suffering in Wuhan, including when a child ran after an ambulance carrying away her dead mother and a six-year-old was found locked up at home with his dead grandfather.
As part of her reporting, Fang chronicled her struggles living alone with her dog and fave an insight into Chinese bureaucracy and the Communist Party which at first downplayed the dangers of the virus.
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