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Detained Australian journalist Cheng Lei wrote diary about the COVID-19 pandemic in China

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An Australian journalist who kept a diary of the coronavirus pandemic has been arrested in China with no reasons given. Cheng Lei, an English-language presenter with the state-owned China Global Television Network since 2012, wrote withering Facebook posts about the Communist Party. The Beijing-based business journalist, who studied in Brisbane and Melbourne, mocked the earlier lockdown … Read more

China accused of ‘brutal and disgraceful’ torture of British consulate worker Simon Cheng

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Britain yesterday accused China of the ‘brutal and disgraceful’ torture of a British official – ratcheting up tensions between the two countries. The Foreign Office labelled the mistreatment of former consulate worker Simon Cheng last summer ‘shocking and appalling’. He was held by the Chinese for more than two weeks in what ‘amounted to torture’, … Read more