It was just after Christmas in 2019, and Australian Matthew Radalj was 34 and running a streetwear business in Beijing when he went to get his phone repaired at a popular electronics market.
Australian jailed in China for four years claims embassy ignored his desperate calls for medical assistance during horror Beijing prison ordeal
He asked the police to file a complaint against the mob as he had been badly beaten at the popular 258 electronics market and all his personal items were stolen. The Aussie businessman spent time in the detention centre - isolated from his family and tortured - for almost a year without money and was held without charge.
The leniency agreement was written on an A4-sized paper that said"see attachment figure 2", but when he asked for the attachment, he was grabbed by the throat through the bars on the cell door and told that if he didn’t sign on account of not seeing the attachment then he was being argumentative and the court would likely sentence him to 12 years for “bad behaviour”.
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