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Australian journalist Cheng Lei is vulnerable to torture by Chinese language authorities, human rights observers have stated. On Monday the Australian authorities revealed Chinese authorities had detained Cheng , a Chinese language-born Australian citizen and enterprise information anchor for CGTN, China’s English-language state media channel. The federal government has not been advised why she has been detained, and amid deteriorating relations China’s overseas minister has not returned calls from Australian representatives for months. Cheng was taken into “residential surveillance at a delegated location†(RSDL), a type of detention that has been categorised by United Nations human rights consultants as a...
