Journalist Cheng Lei has returned to Australia after more than three years in a Chinese jail.
Australian journalist Cheng Lei has returned to Australia after spending three years in detention in Australia. Cheng was arrested in China in August 2020 while working as a news anchor for the Chinese government's English-language TV channel CGTN, and charged with "illegally supplying state secrets overseas".
"Our focus remains on her interests and welfare, and we are asking for her privacy and that of her family be respected at this time as she adjusts to what has obviously been a very difficult and traumatic period for her in her life," he said. Cheng was detained under China's powerful security laws, which allow authorities to keep a person secretly in detention for six months without charge.
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