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Tom Wark

Reporter's prison torture cost of political posturing

Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei has detailed her harrowing time in prison in a memoir. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

When leaving a Chinese prison after more than three years inside, Cheng Lei was warned by a guard not to write about her experience.

The warning turned out to be futile, with the Chinese-Australian broadcaster launching her book, A Memoir of Freedom, to document her time on espionage charges.

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