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Australian journalist Cheng Lei formally arrested in China for ‘illegally supplying state secrets’ | South China Morning Post

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Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei was formally arrested in China on February 5, 2021, after being detained for six months. Cheng, who worked as a TV anchor at CGTN has been formally arrested for “illegally supplying state secrets overseas”. Before her detention, she had written a number of Facebook posts criti…

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