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Concern grows for Australian writer detained in China

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun at a conference in Beijing in 2010

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun at a conference in Beijing in 2010 Source: AAP

The couple's lawyer says his wife has now been preveted from leaving China and the government needs to intervene more decisively to advocate for Yang Hengjun and now his wife's cases.



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