Yang Hengjun, an Australian writer and pro-democracy agitator, has been detained in a Beijing prison for four years and nine months. His family is urging the Australian government to help secure his release, citing the recent release of another Australian citizen, Cheng Lei, as a source of hope.
Yang Hengjun has two gaps in his Beijing prison cell through which he interacts with the outside world.The father, writer, and pro-democracy agitator has spent four years pacing the 11 steps that make up this dungeon of a cell. He has largely been unable to read books or write letters home. Occasionally, some rays of sunlight might flicker through a glass pane, but he has not felt the direct heat of sunlight in years.
Chinese medical officials have identified a kidney cyst, but his family worries it is being left untreated.“The risk of being left to die from medical maltreatment is especially clear to our father because he has seen it happen to his friends,” Yang’s sons wrote. “We ask that you make clear that it is not possible to stabilise the bilateral relationship with a government that is holding an Australian citizen just a few kilometres south of where you will be hosted,” they said.
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