Last 2 journalists working for Australian media leave China

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The last two journalists working for Australian media in China have left the country after police demanded interviews with them and temporarily blocked their departures.

The absence of Australian media from China for the first time in four decades comes during a low point in the two countries' relations, and the events that led to the journalists' departures were seen as evidence of an increasing risk to foreign journalists working in China.

"Compulsory measures have been imposed on Cheng and she has recently been investigated by relevant authorities," Zhao said at a daily briefing. Australian Embassy officials in Beijing told Birtles last week that he should leave China, ABC reported. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Cheng's detention was part of the reason her government had advised the journalists to leave. She declined to detail all the reasons.

Australia's travel warning of the risk of arbitrary detention in China "remains appropriate and unchanged," she added. The newspaper's editor-in-chief, Michael Stutchbury, and editor, Paul Bailey, described the situation as "disturbing."

 

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