Australia’s foreign minister said the government was ‘appalled’ by the sentence, which could mean life in prison for Yang
Australian academic Yang Hengjun has been given a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court, after five years in detention on espionage charges.
Yang was arrested in 2019 at Guangzhou airport, accused of spying for an undisclosed foreign country. The pro-democracy blogger is an Australian citizen who was born in China.
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