{"id":61657,"date":"2024-02-05T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/australian-academic-yang-hengjun-given-suspended-death-sentence-by-chinese-court-writer-wong"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:56:42","slug":"australian-academic-yang-hengjun-given-suspended-death-sentence-by-chinese-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61657","title":{"rendered":"Australian academic Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence by Chinese court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s foreign minister says government is \u2018appalled\u2019 by sentence, which could mean life in prison<\/p>\n

The Australian academic Yang Hengjun has been given a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court, after five years in detention on espionage charges. His sentence came on the same day that the women\u2019s rights activist Li Qiaochu<\/a> was sentenced to three years and eight months by a court in Shandong for \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yang was arrested in 2019<\/a> at Guangzhou airport, accused of spying for an undisclosed foreign country. The 57-year-old pro-democracy blogger is an Australian citizen who was born in China. He was tried in a one-day, closed-door hearing in Beijing in May 2021, with a verdict not publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n

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