Australian Citizen Waives Death Sentence Appeal in China

Australian citizen Yang Hengjun will not appeal a suspended death sentence handed down by Beijing, his family revealed, saying it would be “detrimental to his welfare.” His family believes the process could delay access to supervised medical care. Mr. Yang is an Australian citizen born in China. He was a pro-democracy blogger and spy novelist, who was working in New York before his arrest at Guangzhou airport in 2019 on suspicion of espionage, based on an allegation made in 1994. Before being detained he posted comments critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on social media. He also wrote about Beijing and U.S. politics, and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University....