Cheng Lei Exposes China’s ‘Secretive’ Prison System in New Memoir

Australia – Sky News, February 21, 2025

Sky News presenter Cheng Lei is set to release a “harrowing” memoir in April, detailing her three-year incarceration in China.
A former Australian of the Year, who was incarcerated in Beijing for more than three years for supplying “state secrets” to overseas organisations, has announced the release of a “harrowing” memoir.
Sky News presenter Cheng Lei details her experience of being “isolated from the world” for more than three years in her new book Cheng Lei: A memoir of freedom.
The Australian-Chinese journalist was the anchor of China’s government-run, English-language Global Business TV show in August 2020.
Lei was a veteran business journalist at the “pinnacle” of her career when she was met by officers from the Ministry of State Security after arriving for work one morning.
The officers searched Lei’s apartment before blindfolding her and driving her to a secret location.

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