Original article by Georgia Roberts
abc.net.au – Page: Online : 12-Oct-23

Australian journalist Cheng Lei has returned to Australia more than three years after being arrested in China, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying he had known about her release for some time. Cheng was working at Chinese state-owned media CGTN when she was arrested in August 2020; she was accused of "supplying state secrets overseas", an allegation she denied. Albanese said he had spoken to her on Wednesday, noting she had been happily reunited with her family in Melbourne. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday that Cheng had served a sentence of two years and 11 months, and was released after completing it

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