Chinese court sentences Australian Yang Hengjun to death with two

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By Tom Crowley and Stephen Dziedzic, for ABC

--FILE--Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun attends a lecture at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China, 18 November 2010.China has detained a Chinese-Australian writer who had flown in from New York last week, the Australian government said, adding it was trying to find out why he was being held. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Chinese authorities on Wednesday had informed the Australian embassy in Beijing that they had detained Yang Hengjun. “The department is seeking to clarify the nature of this detention and to obtain consular access to him ... as a matter of priority,” the department said in a statement issued late on Wednesday. (Photo by Zhan min / Imaginechina / Imaginechina via AFP)

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun attends a lecture at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China, on 18 November 2010. Photo: Imaginechina via AFP

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