‘Closed and Opaque’: Australia Decries Communist China’s Legal Process for Detained Writer Yang Hengjun

‘Closed and Opaque’: Australia Decries Communist China’s Legal Process for Detained Writer Yang Hengjun
Yang Hengjun, author and former Chinese diplomat, who is now an Australian citizen, displays a name tag in an unspecified location in Tibet, China, mid-July, 2014. Reuters
Caden Pearson
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Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has called out the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency regarding an impending closed-door trial of Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun who has been detained in China since January 2019.

She indicated that Beijing has failed to conform to the basic international standards of transparency and independence of the courts, imploring the communist regime to allow Yang legal and consular access prior to his trial on May 27.

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