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Yang Hengjun’s family urges Albanese to negotiate with China for jailed Australian writer’s release

Yang Hengjun’s family urges Albanese to negotiate with China for jailed Australian writer’s release

Democracy activist ‘hasn’t enjoyed any direct sunlight for over four years’ and his children fear their father risks being left to die in a Chinese prisonFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe children of jailed Australian writer Yang Hengjun, detained for more than four years in China, have pleaded with Anthony Albanese to negotiate his release in Beijing this week, telling the prime minister his situation is critical and their father risks “being left to die”.The writer and avowed democracy activist was arrested in January 2019 and charged with espionage. Yang has collapsed in prison and been told he has a 10cm cyst growing on his kidney, his sons said in a letter to Albanese, emphasising there was “a narrow window of opportunity” to secure his release.In a prison, inmates are allowed to go outside to get fresh air and may eat in the canteen. Unlike the detention centre where I eat, drink, def

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