‘I Miss The Sun’: Australian Journalist, Held in China for Three Years, Yearns for Her Children

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Jailed Australian journalist Cheng Lei yearns for her children and the country’s “psychedelic sunsets", she said in a rare public letter marking three years since her mysterious arrest in China. Cheng describes her bleak prison conditions in a candid note dictated to Australian officials from her cell, casting new light on a long-running point of friction between Canberra and Beijing. “I miss the sun," reads the message, described as a “love letter" to Australia. “In my cell, the sunlight shines through the window but I can stand in it for only 10 hours a year." The former anchor for Chinese...