Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei, who will have spent three years in detention in China as of Sunday, has issued a rare message saying she misses her family and life in Australia. 9News
"I miss the sun. In my cell, the sunlight shines through the window but I can stand in it for only 10 hours a year," she said in a message released Thursday by her partner Nick Coyle on the X account he runs, FreeChengLei.Cheng Lei is a high-profile Australian television anchor for the Chinese Government's English news channel, CGTN
Cheng, a former business anchor for China's state broadcaster CGTN and mother of two, is accused of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, a charge that carries a possible sentence of between five years to life in prison. In her letter released Thursday, Cheng spoke fondly of her life in Australia, writing "I miss the Australian people."
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