We suffer tremendous freedom guilt says Cheng Lei, after Chinese detention
The Australian-Chinese mother shone a light on the human costs of hostage diplomacy.
An emotional Cheng Lei has detailed the ongoing psychological costs of her detention in China and said she does not know why she was freed when the Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun was sentenced to death.
‘The freedom guilt we all suffer is tremendous,’ Cheng told an audience in Canberra on Wednesday.
The Chinese-born Australian television journalis…


