{"id":45095,"date":"2022-06-02T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/cheng-lei-partner-of-australian-journalist-detained-in-china-says-he-is-concerned-about-her-declining-health"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T03:13:12","slug":"cheng-lei-partner-of-australian-journalist-detained-in-china-says-he-is-concerned-about-her-declining-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45095","title":{"rendered":"Cheng Lei: partner of Australian journalist detained in China says he is concerned about her declining health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Coyle says monthly consular visits by Australian officials were suspended because of China\u2019s strict Covid-19 protocols<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The partner of Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei \u2013 detained by Beijing authorities since August 2020 \u2013 has said he has serious concerns about her declining health behind bars in an interview aired on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng, a mother of two and former anchor at Chinese state broadcaster CGTN, was formally arrested in February 2021, when she was charged with \u201csupplying state secrets overseas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/cheng-lei-partner-of-australian-journalist-detained-in-china-says-he-is-concerned-about-her-declining-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Coyle says monthly consular visits by Australian officials were suspended because of China\u2019s strict Covid-19 protocolsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe partner of Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095\/revisions\/45096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}