NewsBite

Cheng Lei

Advertisement
Cheng Lei (left), Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Sean Turnell.

Don’t shut down families of Aussies in trouble overseas, high-profile former prisoners warn

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Cheng Lei and Sean Turnell have successfully lobbied for a Senate inquiry into how the government manages cases of citizens wrongfully held in government prisons or as hostages.

  • Olivia Ireland

Latest

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Sky News presenter Cheng Lei.

‘Rude, inappropriate’: Albanese toughens language on Cheng Lei incident as Chinese premier departs

The PM insisted his government has improved relations with China without giving ground on core values.

  • Matthew Knott and Olivia Ireland
Australian journalist Cheng Lei is “flanked” by two Chinese government officials during a signing ceremony at Parliament House on Monday.

Cheng Lei wanted to do her job. A Chinese embassy official had other ideas

Even in Canberra’s Parliament House, Australia’s monument to democracy, Cheng Lei cannot avoid being hassled by the Chinese government.

  • Matthew Knott
Journalist Cheng Lei (centre, aged 9) with dad Chu-yong and mum Hua in Hunan province, China, 1984, right before Chu-yong came to Australia as a visiting scholar.

I love my mum, but I try to be the mother she wasn’t

I did not recognise my mum from the maternal stereotypes I saw in laundry detergent and chicken dinner commercials.

  • Cheng Lei
North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw in Mana, near the border between India and China.

China blocked my visa. I spent three years getting as close as I could

In the end, its actions amplified voices it had hoped to suppress.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Chinese-Australian writer and blogger Yang Hengjun.

Who is Yang Hengjun, sentenced to death in China?

Human rights dissident, pro-democracy blogger, Chinese government official, daigou entrepreneur. Yang Hengjun has worn many hats.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Advertisement
Australian journalist Cheng Lei, seen here on air on Chinese English-language news channel CGTN, has returned to Australia after a long period of detention in China.

Matter of minutes: Why Cheng Lei did not see her family for three years

The Australian journalist’s comments are the first time she has revealed the reasons for her detention in August 2020.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
The same day that detained Australian journalist Cheng Lei returned to Australia, the United States condemned Beijing for its arrest of Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei.

‘Psychological torture’: The brutal system China uses to make people disappear

The same day that Cheng Lei returned to Australia, the US condemned Beijing for its arrest of another target.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Cheng Lei, the Australian anchor for China's government-run English news channel CGTN.

Inside the years of negotiations to secure the release of Cheng Lei

The moment the Australian government knew Cheng Lei was finally free was when she was on the plane from Beijing to Melbourne.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Australians Yang Hengjun and Cheng Lei.

Australian father’s life in danger and should be Albanese’s top priority, friends say

Yang Hengjun, who has spent more than four years in detention – one year longer than Cheng Lei – has always maintained his innocence to charges of espionage.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/cheng-lei-6g9v