“Shocking news’: China sentences Australian writer to death. Yang Jun is a native of China and received Australian citizenship in 2002.
He worked primarily in New York and was arrested in 2019 while in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Chinese authorities accuse him of spying for another country; Details of the charges are not known. Yang has denied the allegations against him. The decision could derail recent efforts for rapprochement between China and Australia. Yang is apparently seriously ill; a cyst was discovered in his kidney last year.