Chinese Australian democracy writer and blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.
Yang has been detained in China since January 19, 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.
On Monday, the Associated Press saw details of a message from Yang that has been circulating among family and friends for the past week in which he said a doctor recently told him the cause of what appeared to be a muscle strain was a 4-inch cyst. in a kidney. .
The doctor said no treatment is required unless the cyst becomes too painful, ruptures or bleeds, Yang said.
Yang, 58, shared the frustration at the prospect of dying in custody without being able to tell his truth to the outside world.
Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been detained in China since January 19, 2019. Zhan min – Imaginechina
He also proposed writing a will.
Yang’s friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said his supporters urged the Australian government to secure Yang’s release to Australia on medical grounds or at least conditional release for medical treatment outside the detention center. .
Supporters also want the government to have access to Yang’s medical records to get a second opinion.
A doctor told Yang Hengjun that no treatment is required unless the cyst becomes too painful, ruptures, or bleeds. Zhan min – Imaginechina
“They can use medicine to kill the prisoners instead of saving them. That is my fear,” Feng said. “It is a very dangerous situation if you need an operation. That operation could kill you.”
The difficulties of Yang and another Chinese Australian detained in China, journalist Cheng Lei, are frequently on the agendas of high-level meetings between the countries.
Yang’s supporters hope Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will again make his case to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 top rich and developing countries summit in India next month.
Albanese raised the issue of the two Chinese Australians when he first met Xi last year.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said the government would continue to defend Yang.
“We do representations to the Chinese government whenever we can, and that literally means constantly, with respect to all the consular cases that exist with China and that includes this individual,” Marles told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles speaks in Geelong, Australia, on August 28, 2023. AP
“We will continue to defend this person before the Chinese government and do whatever we can because of his circumstances,” Marles said.
Yang was tried behind closed doors on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.
The announcement of the verdict has been postponed three months ten times and the next possible sentence is on October 9.
Cheng, a 48-year-old journalist and former employee of China’s state broadcaster, was convicted on national security charges in a closed-door trial last year.
She has not yet been sentenced.
In a letter to the Australian public on August 11, the third anniversary of his detention, Cheng discussed his living conditions, saying he was allowed only 10 hours of sunlight a year.
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