Yang Hengjun Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/yang-hengjun/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:56:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Yang Hengjun Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/yang-hengjun/ 32 32 59910430 China Gives Australian-Chinese Writer a Suspended Death Sentence https://concernedscientists.org/2024/02/china-gives-australian-chinese-writer-a-suspended-death-sentence/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:41:45 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=10122 The novelist and academic, Yang Hengjun, was arrested in China in 2019 and charged with espionage. He has very recently been given a suspended death sentence. His health is failing. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Yang-Hengjun-s-death-sentence-shows-power-of-China-s-secret-service https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/world/asia/australian-writer-yang-china-death-sentence.html https://apnews.com/article/china-australia-yang-hengjun-sentence-b20bd2b0a5704b10fcff16cdfdd699ed https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-australia-trial/2021/05/27/77bc50d6-bc50-11eb-922a-c40c9774bc48_story.html

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]]> 10122 Former Chinese Diplomat, and Academic with Australian Citizenship, Who Was Visiting Scholar at The University of Columbia in New York, Confined in Chinese Jail Since January 2019 https://concernedscientists.org/2020/05/former-chinese-diplomat-and-academic-with-australian-citizenship-who-was-visiting-scholar-at-the-university-of-columbia-in-new-york-confined-in-chinese-jail-since-january-2019/ Sun, 03 May 2020 18:38:19 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7909 Yang Hengjun has been in Chinese custody since January 2019 charged and prosecuted for espionage. Reports indicate he has been tortured and in isolation and barred from visits from Australian government officials. He is in fragile health and his wife has been denied travel privileges out of China. CCS has written the President of China […]

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]]> 7909 Renowned Chinese Writer Detained for Exploring China’s Influence on Australian Politics https://concernedscientists.org/2019/04/renowned-chinese-writer-detained-for-exploring-chinas-influence-on-australian-politics/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:30:18 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7396 Yang Hengjun, an internationally respected writer, based at Columbia University in New York City, was detained in Guangzhou airport in January en route to a visit to his family in Shanghai. He has been charged with “endangering national security.” However, it seems that the reason for his arrest may have been related more to an […]

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