Australian consulate in Shanghai safely returned two Australian media correspondents, Bill Birtles from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Michael Smith from the Australian Financial Review (AFR), to their home country on Tuesday, September 8, 2020.
The two foreign correspondents had been taking shelter in Australia’s embassy in Beijing after they were being questioned by the Chinese government in a linked with a national security probe.
As claimed by local media sources, both the journalists were considered to be “persons of interest” in an investigation related to the detention of a Chinese born Australian citizen, television anchor Ms.
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