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“The scars are still there”: the Australian journalist who was imprisoned in China for more than three years, Cheng Lei.

China’s money makes us rich but, as I well know, you can’t put a price on freedom

Falsely accused of espionage, I was jailed for more than three years in China. It is incumbent on everyone, not just Anthony Albanese, to be clear-eyed and cool-headed when it comes to Beijing.

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Sky News presenter Cheng Lei in Melbourne.

The TV star who would make the ideal Beijing cellmate

Cheng Lei’s resilience in the face of adversity is admirable, but the tragedy of her three years in detention is that she should never have endured them.

  • Michael Ruffles
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
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.

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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
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

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