Australian Journalist Spent Years in Prison in China for an Eight-Word Text Message, Now Recounts His Years in Prison in a Book

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Cheng Lei had worked in the Chinese press for more than a decade when he was arrested in 2020. He naively thought that since he had done nothing wrong, he would be released after two or three days. He was held for a full three years.