Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said today (19th) that Australia was disappointed by criminal detention by Australian Australian writer Yang Heng.

According to VOA, Payne said that China notified Australia that Yang Heng was detained in criminal detention.

Payne issued a statement saying that Dr. Yang Hengjun was Australian citizen and a academic person. He has just turned to criminal detention, and the Australian government was very disappointed by this.

Yang Hengjun is a well -known online judge, and is known as democratic hawkers overseas.On January 19 this year, he was taken away by the police after arriving at Guangzhou Airport from New York.China Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said on January 24 that Yang Heng was reviewed for suspected of hazarding China's national security criminal activities.