After the 'moving' return of journalist Cheng Lei to Australia, attention is turning to the plight of author Yang Hengjun who remains in detention.
A supporter of detained Australian Yang Hengjun is calling for "greater pressure" on Chinese authorities to secure his freedom, saying his release would be "logical" after the return of journalist Cheng Lei. Yang, a Chinese-born author and blogger, has been detained in China since January 2019.
Cheng was sentenced to two years and 11 months imprisonment for "illegally providing state secrets to an overseas party," Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. She was then deported after serving her sentence "in accordance with the law". China's state security ministry said the journalist voluntarily pleaded guilty "and accepted the punishment".
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