Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast. Cheng‘s first television interview since she was freed was broadcast in Australia on Tuesday, almost a week after she returned to her mother and two children in Melbourne.
FILE - Australian journalist Cheng Lei smiles after she arrives at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne on Wednesday Oct. 11, 2023. Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast. CANBERRA, Australia — Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast on a state-run TV network.
“What seems innocuous to us here is –- I’m sure it’s not limited to embargoes, but many other things -- are not in China, especially I’m given to understand that the gambit of state security is widening,” she said.Her account differs from the crime outlined by China’s Ministry of State Security last week.
Observers suspect the real reason Cheng was released was persistent lobbying from the Australian government and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s planned trip to China this year on a date yet to be set.
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