China Bans Wife of Detained Australian-Chinese Writer From Leaving the Country

Yang Hengjun, author and former Chinese diplomat, who is now an Australian citizen, is pictured in an unspecified location in Tibet, China on July, 2014 in this social media image obtained by Reuters. Reuters

The wife of an Australian man detained in China since January has been slapped with a travel ban, stopping her from leaving the country.

Yang Hengjun, a 53-year-old Chinese-born writer, was detained in the southern city of Guangzhou earlier in the year on charges of “endangering national security” after flying in from New York.