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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst and Helen Davidson

Cheng Lei: Australia’s foreign minister reveals the promise she made to jailed journalist’s children

Australian journalist Cheng Lei speaks with Australia's foreign affairs minister Penny Wong at Tullamarine airport in Melbourne on Wednesday
‘I think I was more emotional than she was’: Australia's foreign affairs minister Penny Wong speaks with journalist Cheng Lei (left) on her arrival back in Melbourne after three years in Chinese detention. Photograph: Sarah Hodges/AP

The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has revealed she promised the children of the formerly jailed journalist Cheng Lei to “do everything I could to bring her home”.

Speaking a day after Cheng returned to Melbourne after three years in detention in China accused of ill-defined security-related allegations, Wong said the Australian journalist was “in extraordinarily good spirits” and was “pretty tough”.

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