It has been five long years for family, friends and allies of Dr Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen who has now been detained for half a decade by China on vague charges. The Australian writer ...

Dr Yang's close friend Chongyi Feng says he's sad that no appeal will go ahead as he believes it has a strong basis, He says Dr Yang is very strong intellectually and very capable which is why he ...

SYDNEY/SHANGHAI--Yang Hengjun, an Australian writer detained in Beijing and facing trial for espionage on behalf of a country China hasn’t publicly named was a former Chinese spy, according to a ...

SYDNEY--A verdict in the espionage trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun, detained by China since his arrest there four years ago, has been delayed until April, the seventh such delay ...

The federal government says it has "serious concerns" about the health of Australian Chinese writer Yang Jun who was imprisoned by China. The pro-democracy activist was given a suspended death ...

The family of jailed Chinese-Australian writer Yang, who was handed a suspended death sentence earlier this year, had earlier called on Albanese to demand the pro-democracy advocate be released ...

A Beijing court handed Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun a suspended death sentence on Monday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong of Australia said, some five years after he was detained in China.

Michelle Grattan discusses the increasing strain on the Australia-China relationship following the arrest of Dr. Yang Hengjun, and the government’s draft religious discrimination legislation.