Cheng Lei On Life in Chinese Prison

Cheng Lei is an Australian journalist and currently a news anchor for Sky News Australia. In August 2020, while working as a business reporter for China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Beijing, she was arrested by China’s Ministry of State Security. The charge: “illegally supplying state secrets overseas,” Australia’s foreign minister disclosed in 2021 (China has never publicized its accusations against her). Cheng learned in detention that the specific ‘crime’ she had b

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