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Read more Shortly after Ms Lei’s arrest, the Australian embassy in Beijing warned the two remaining journalists working for Australian news organisations to leave China. Mike Smith from the Australian Financial Review and ABC correspondent Bill Birtles were both questioned by Chinese authorities in Shanghai and Beijing respectively, as a condition of them being allowed to leave the country. Birtles, who had been due to fly out of China, said several police officers arrived at his apartment at midnight to tell him he was banned from leaving the country, and needed to be questioned over a “national security caseâ€. Both...
