SYDNEY — Australia has told China of its “outrage” over a suspended death sentence handed to Chinese-Australian dissident writer Yang Jun, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday (Feb 6).
Yang was sentenced to death on Monday with a two-year suspended execution and had all of his property confiscated, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
The Beijing court found him guilty of “espionage”, a ministry spokesman said.
Yang’s sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment if no “serious crimes” are committed during the two-year suspension period, the Australian foreign ministry has said.
Australia’s government has conveyed “our dismay, our despair, our frustration, but to put it really simply, our outrage at this verdict,” Mr Albanese told reporters in Canberra.
“This is a very harsh sentence on Dr Yang, who is a man who’s not in good health, and we will continue to make the…
