
A | CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday.Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China's state broadcaster CCTV. She has reunited with her two children in Melbourne, Albanese said.Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year on a date yet to be announced. He will become the first Australian prime minister to visit the Chinese capital in seven years.Albanese said Australia had traded nothing with China for Cheng's release.“Her release follows the completion of judicial processes in China,” he said.China’s Ministry of State Security said that Cheng had been approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.A court in Beijing convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported Wednesday after serving her sentence, presumably because she had already been detained for that long .“Her return brings an end to a very difficult few years for Ms. Cheng and her family," Albanese said. "The government has been seeking this for a long period of time and her return will be warmly welcomed not just by her family and friends but by all Australians.”The FreeChengLei account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Cheng with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Australia's ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher.The post included a quote, apparently from Cheng, that read: “Tight hugs, teary screams, holding my kids in the spring sunshine. Trees shimmy from the breeze. I can see the entirety of the sky now! Thank you Aussies.”Albanese’s government has been lobbying for the release of Cheng and another Chinese Australian held in China since 2019, Yang Hengjun.Bilateral relations have improved since Albanese's center-left Labor Party was elected after nine years of conservative rule. Beijing has lifted several official and unofficial trade barriers on Australian exports.Albanese's reference to China's judicial system suggested that Cheng had recently been sentenced after she was convicted in a closed-court trial last year on national security charges.Questioned by a reporter, Albanese said China was not acknowledging through Cheng's release that she posed no threat or had been wrongfully detained.“No, China would have not have said that that's the position. China would say that the judicial processes have been completed in China,” Albanese said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese judicial system tried the case “in accordance with the law, fully safeguarding the rights enjoyed by the person concerned in accordance with the law.”Albanese said he spoke to Cheng in Melbourne, where her children have been living with her mother, and that they discussed a letter she had written to the Australian public in August to mark the third anniversary of her detention. The Chinese-born journalist spoke in her letter about her love for her adopted country.In the letter, she also described her living conditions in detention in China, saying she was allowed to stand in sunlight for just 10 hours a year.“She is a very strong and resilient person ... and when I spoke with her she was delighted to be back in Melbourne,” Albanese said.Albanese did not say whether Yang was also likely to be released.“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests, rights and wellbeing with the Chinese authorities at all levels,” Albanese said.Yang, a 58-year-old writer and democracy blogger, told his family in August he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.Yang has been detained in China since January 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.Yang received a closed-door trial on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.Yang's friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said on Wednesday a verdict had been postponed for three months 11 times and the next possible ruling was January.He said Cheng’s release was good news for Yang. “I do hope Yang is treated in the same way. Given Yang’s poor health, his release is actually more urgent,” Feng said.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.___This story corrects the name of the Chinese security agency.。 高市早苗首相が電光石火の衆院解散で、てんやわんやの年明けでしたが、芸能界も驚きのニュースが続きます。米倉涼子(50)は243日ぶりに公の場に姿を見せ、活動休止から8カ月が過ぎた元TOKIOの国分太一(51)には新たな動きがありました。

B | 今回もいつものメンバーが深掘りします。 芸能リポーター 活動自粛中だった米倉涼子が、主演映画「エンジェルフライト」の試写会で243日ぶりに公の場に登場したね。 週刊誌記者 昨年9月から仕事のキャンセルが相次ぎ心配の声が上がる中で、関東信越厚生局麻薬取締部が自宅を家宅捜索したと10月週刊文春が報じた。 ワイドショーデスク ただ今年1月に不起訴になり、米倉本人もコメントを発表。芸能活動を続ける意向を見せた。 リポーター 不起訴になったから今回のイベントに出てきたのかな? スポニチ本紙デスク 映画関係者にとっては公開前に騒動が落ち着いてホッとしたというのが本音だろうね。本人は舞台に立つことへの葛藤があったと聞く。出演を悩んだけど最終的には周囲の勧めもあって決断したようだ。 リポーター 試写会での米倉はどんな様子だったの? 本紙デスク 取材に行った記者に聞くと頬はこけ、やつれていたみたい。以前なら自ら率先して作品をアピールするのに、今回は終始うつむきながら他の登壇者や司会からの質問に受け答えをするだけで精いっぱい。何度も涙ぐんでたって。 ワイドデスク 自身の口から騒動に触れるかが注目されたけど、直接的な言及はなかった。「ドクターX」シリーズで共演してきた遠藤憲一がフォローしていたのが印象的だったね。

C | 週刊誌記者 米倉は晴れ舞台ではヒールを履くイメージがあったけれど、黒のスーツに白いスニーカーを合わせていた。 本紙デスク 脳脊髄液減少症と闘病しているからその影響かもしれないけどね。 リポーター 今後の米倉の活動はどうなるんだろう? ワイドデスク 不起訴になったとはいえ、スポンサーはイメージを大事にするから地上波ドラマの復帰は難しいだろう。 週刊誌記者 今回の試写会の仕事をするだけで精いっぱいだったみたい。前向きに次の仕事を考えられる状態じゃないようだ。

D | 本紙デスク ただ近年は、騒動になった人物が海外資本の配信ドラマで復活するケースも珍しくなくなった。実力は間違いないだけに、地上波での作品出演が見通せないことを逆手にとってオファーが増えてくるかもしれないね。 リポーター “失敗しない”米倉が戻ってくるのか注目だね。
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