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Agency February 8, 2021 SYDNEY (Reuters) – The family of an Australian journalist arrested in China has pleaded with authorities to grant the former high-profile state TV news anchor access to her two school-age children. Australian authorities confirmed on Monday that Cheng Lei, 49, was arrested on Feb. 5 on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, around six months after she was first detained in mid-August. “We are absolutely convinced of her innocence,” a family representative said in an emailed statement to Reuters. Cheng, a business news anchor on Chinese state media’s English-language channel CGTN, where she had worked...
