Yang Hengjun, Australian writer, is detained in Beijing
With concerns about the author and former security agency employee’s health, his case is indicative of the crackdown on liberal voices in China since 2016 under President Xi Jinping
21 October 2020 - 11:28
Sydney/Shanghai — Yang Hengjun, an Australian writer detained in Beijing and facing trial for espionage on behalf of a country China has not publicly named, was a former Chinese spy, according to a confidential letter he wrote to a supporter in 2011.
In the detailed letter he wrote to his former teacher, which was reviewed by Reuters, Yang revealed he had worked for China’s ministry of state security (MSS) for a decade from 1989, including in Hong Kong and Washington, before moving to Australia...
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