SYDNEY: The Australian government said on Saturday (Oct 10) it has been informed that Chinese authorities have decided to prosecute Australian ...
SYDNEY: The Australian government said on Saturday it has been informed that Chinese authorities have decided to prosecute Australian citizen Dr Yang Hengjun on"charges yet to be announced".
The 55-year-old blogger was detained by Chinese authorities in January 2019 at Guangzhou Airport after arriving from New York. He has been held in a Beijing detention facility with no access to his family, while his wife remains in China. A judge is expected to be appointed in the next two weeks to hear the case, said Feng Chongyi, a friend of Dr Yang's and a professor at the University of Technology Sydney.Under the Chinese legal system, the charge, evidence to support the charge and a proposed sentence will be given to the court at the start of a trial, Feng said.
Consular access via videolink to Australian embassy officials was restored in September after being suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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