Yang Hengjun’s supporters are urging the federal government to demand the academic be given medical parole or access to Australian-supervised medical care.
Detained Australian Yang Hengjun says he is increasingly fearful he will be denied medical treatment and die in a Chinese prison after medical authorities told him they had discovered a huge, 10-centimetre cyst on his kidney.
‘There is little reason to trust that the Chinese state security system has any interest in giving Yang [Hengjun] the treatment he needs.’Friends who have been briefed in recent days said Yang feared he would suffer the same fate as his friend, Nobel Prize-winning writer Liu Xiaobo, a political prisoner who died of liver cancer in 2017.
Sources said that after Yang complained of a persistent muscle strain, a doctor conducted a medical examination and told him he had a 10-centimetre cyst. The Beijing People’s High Court has approved multiple extensions to the deadline for handing down a verdict on Yang’s case, with October 9 set as the current deadline for a verdict.
A spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Penny Wong said: “Our thoughts are with Dr Yang Jun, and we share the deep concerns of his friends and family about the ongoing delays in his case.
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