This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.If Yang Hengjun complies with the terms of his imprisonment and commits no further crimes, 'theoretically there is a chance he will not be executed,' Ambassador Xiao Qian says
The suspended sentence from a Beijing court on espionage charges does not entail immediate execution for Yang, Ambassador Xiao Qian said at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit on Monday. A pro-democracy blogger and spy novelist, Yang is an Australian citizen born in China who was working in New York before his arrest at the Guangzhou airport in 2019.handed him a suspended death sentence on espionage charges, shocking his family and supporters, after five years in detention in Beijing and three years after his closed-door trial.
Yang worked for China’s Ministry of State Security for a decade starting in 1989, including in Hong Kong and Washington, before quitting and moving to Australia.
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