The Coalition proposes a stronger federal response to overseas detentions, pushing for a dedicated envoy and legislative backing.

The pledge to take more assertive action to tackle “hostage diplomacy” has been welcomed by Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who spent ...

Ahead of the federal election, we asked the three major parties to respond to our Human Rights Agenda — a set of policy ...

Would it make a difference if the sons of imprisoned Australian writer Yang Hengjun spoke up for their father again? Of course, family circumstances are different, but when we are locked up and ...

Josh Chin is a senior global correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Asia. He specializes in investigations and ...

In February last year, Australian writer Yang Hengjun, known for blogging about human rights issues in China, was handed a suspended death sentence on espionage charges. That sentence was upheld ...

and Dr Yang Hengjun who has been detained in China since 2019 and sentenced to a suspended death penalty. The Coalition has engaged with returned detainees, particularly with the Australian Wrongful ...

In a separate case earlier last year, a Beijing court handed Australian writer Yang Hengjun a suspended death sentence on espionage charges in February, a decision the Australian government ...

China’s suspended death sentence for Yang Hengjun exposed, again, Australia’s sensitive position in this asymmetric relationship, in which China’s great-power-centric mindset ignores Canberra’s needs ...