Earlier this year, Yang Hengjun wished his Twitter fans happy New Year.(Reuters)
(Sydney Comprehensive News) The Australian government confirmed that Yang Hengjun, a Australian Chinese writer who had been detained in China for more than half a year, had been officially arrested for spy.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australian Foreign Minister Payne said that they received a notice from the Beijing National Security Department that Yang Heng, who was detained in Guangzhou in January this year, was arrested by the Chinese government on Friday (23rd) for suspected spy.
Payne said that the Australian government was very worried and disappointed with this, and Yang Hengjun would continue to be detained next, and the Australian government will be with Yang Hengjun's family.She said that without any formal prosecution, she was detained Yang Heng for more than seven months. During the detention period, the conditions were poor. There was no reasonable explanation during this time, and the lawyers and their families were not allowed to visit.She also pointed out that it is difficult to get more information from Beijing.
Yang Hengjun's Australian lawyer Rob Stary told the Australian Agency (AAP) that the allegations are related to what incident. Although Beijing may accuse Yang Hengjun as a spy in the Australian government, he did not write clearly in the prosecution letter clearly.EssenceThe lawyer suspected that Yang Hengjun was sued because he had been actively publishing political opinions and publicly advocated democracy.
Yang Heng, 53, worked at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hainan Government and Chinese -funded companies, and immigrated to Australia in 2000.He performed active on the Chinese social media platform and Twitter (Twitter) and has more than 130,000 followers, known as democratic hawkers.In 2008, Yang Hengjun issued an open letter calling on the Chinese nationalist propaganda brought by Chinese Chinese nationalist publicity.
On January 16 this year, he lost contact with his wife and children from New York, USA to Guangzhou.Since then, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has confirmed that Yang Heng is allegedly engaged in endangering China's national security criminal activities, and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Security has taken compulsory measures to review it in accordance with the law.
According to Chinese law, the crime of being accused of spies can be sentenced to at least three years in prison, and the maximum can be sentenced to death.
