:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_59edd422c0c84a879bd37670ae4f538a/internal_photos/bs/2019/d/v/YVLNDKTs2amGAcycHHqA/yang-hengjun.jpg)
[ad_1]
The Australian government wants to know where the Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun, apparently disappeared after arriving in China on January 19 with his family.
"The Australian Foreign Ministry is looking for information about an Australian citizen who is missing in China, and as a result of our privacy obligations, we will not make any further comment," said a spokesman. Ministry's statement in a statement. by the agency Efe.
The alleged disappearance of Yang Hengjun has been denounced by some of his friends, fearing that the academic writer and former head of the Foreign Ministry of China, Australian nationalized – will be detained by the authorities Chinese because of his criticism of the Communist Party.
In addition, it causes the strangeness of the author's silence on Twitter, where he has more than 131,000 followers.
This is not the first time that it disappears in China. In 2011, he remained incommunicado for several days, an incident he described as "misunderstanding," recalled the local "AAP" agency.
The Chinese government said that he was not aware of the disappearance of Yang Hengjun.
"I am not aware of this situation, I will try to obtain information from the relevant authorities," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters on Wednesday.
Between October and December 2015, five publishers and booksellers criticizing the Chinese government in Hong Kong – one in Thailand – reappeared several months later in custody in China, accused of various crimes.
Source link
