# Soundtrack: Cheng Lei | After freedom—from CCTV anchor to prisoner “03”

https://mins.news/en/video/84066

- VOA Chinese, 2026-10-02 20:15 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPq81GdZ4Rs

> Australian-Chinese journalist Cheng Lei moved to Australia at age 10, later returned to China and became a news anchor for CCTV. In 2020, she was secretly taken away and accused of illegally providing state secrets abroad, spending more than three years deprived of her freedom and known in prison only as “03.”

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