as a theme you to in the country like to keep taking on the powers that be the risk. everything turned into our needs. activists, journalists, and politicians living in exile the way to which on the list for their mission, what drives them. people need to know what is happening there were series guardians of truth watch now on youtube, d. w documentary the this is data over here and use asia coming up a 1000 days in a badging jail family. friends politicians plea for the release of australian journalists tongue late. the mother of to was accused of leaking state secrets. we speak to her popular nic coil. typical aspect without doubt is, is,

is the prolong separation from the children. you know, that's the, that's the thing that's much difficult. also in the show, driving out the vote in thailand where on the campaign trail with fuller protesters who wants to change politics from the inside the bank visible and welcome hostage diplomacy at the height of a trade spent between china and australia, 3 years ago, astray and anchored to lake was detained in by j. a close door trial followed last year. the verdict suspended and no light shed on spying allegations. born in china raised in australia, the 48 year old was a well no business reporter in badging. australian officials originally refused to raise the case with china's leadership, but the chinese foreign ministry was pressed again. the balance of detention this

week. cutting each other when we have given all the relevant information on the case many times. we have also spoken about how strongly suspected crime is being dealt with by the chinese authorities according to law. you wonder what i want to emphasize is that chung lays legal rights are guaranteed, and in accordance with chinese law. truly the good you hope you found the body shop? a straight. he wants the journalists released and re united with our family, as right in foreign minister, penny wong tweeted, we share the deep concerns of her family and friends about the ongoing delays in her case. we will continue to advocate for china lay at every opportunity with the chinese government today and every day my thoughts with strongly and our children upon the coil has been trying to get his partner released. he was the head of biggest writing chamber of commerce and by jake before being advised to leave. i asked him about the last time he sold. i live in state or in personal spiked into

is since she was the time. so we'd have to go back to the, the 12th of august 2020 is the last time that i've, i've seen her respond to a site. it's uh, you know, a 1001 days ago. so you haven't got to tell tour in private even or not, not um sign id um the system doesn't allow for that site. all the system allows for uh, for the past, you know, a 1000 dies is a 30 minute conceal a visit once a month. and that's to 90 be undertaken by embassy officials. and then she's been able to write periodically to her children and parents, and then more recently to me, um and so she's right sort of roughly once a month and side of the why is it her family and her children and myself can

contact is to pass on messages for the embassy officials to read out to a during that 30 minute once a month conceal a visit and answer letters. but that the letters are quite a cumbersome process because you sort of send a letter and then it takes a month to get a reply and then it's another month before she gets your reply. so it's, um, it's quite a cumbersome process. and can you describe the consumer video visits to me all the time? i guess they're a welfare check. is boxes. anything side? um you know, i details like becaise. so all the sorts of areas i'm unable to be disgusted as comfortable a visit. so i really the, the main purpose of the visit, susie is the welfare check to the i tell a lie, what's going on around the world and those sorts of things. and also to pass on messages from, from friends and family. you brought that in some of these visits. she's leaded to

the meeting, a blind folded hand, cofton put in a timber restraint. is she being treated you looked at, that seems to be the norm. i a look at how it describes the 1st 6 months in, in, in our, a studio which is what the china chinese system calls residential surveillance in a designated like twice. and it kind of sounds like a, you know, house arrest, taught scenario. but as far from that and that was extremely difficult. so that sort of involves effectively solid tree for 6 months. i ask permission to stand up . that's the reason to sit down, you know, interrogations, all of that sort of stuff. i'm dying not look, it's very difficult and other people who have gone through that sort of thing, why they recorded how that system operates. and somebody who i know is actually been through that system, you know, described to produce essentially to me and sign that our ceo as hell. and i can

certainly say from the counselor, visit the story that 6 month period, that certainly seems to be quite accurate. look since then she's been transferred to a business through started security detection facility where it's a, it's a certainly a bit better. she's got a couple of cell nights, but it's still a allowed into a sort of 3 by 3 made an exercise book. so the courtyard, which is obviously old and closed and we boss and so on and you know, each die for some exercise side. that's a but it's still a hearty, restrictive environment. it's not like you can make phone calls or, or, or anything like that. so it's um, it's still a very restrictive environment and of course, enormously difficult, mentally, emotionally, all of those sorts of things and look most the most difficult aspect without doubt is, is the prolong separation for my children. you know, that's the, that's the thing. that's much difficult. how are her kids coping?

it looks, i do their best. um, they would say it's a big round mazda down in the open. um and lo, it keeps do what kids do and try to get on with life and, and try to deal with what's in front of some kids to some degree a bit better than i said also compartmentalizing in that respect. but look, i think the truth of the matter is, you know, having your mazda times in such extraordinary circumstances, having prolonged absence of not being able to speak to a bull's eye sorts of the somebody that has to have an impact, doesn't it? and look that. so i will be getting a little to the right support and, and so on. but you know, if obviously it's going to impact children who, when 9 and 11 when she was detained and it's very, very difficult. and there is much of a victim in all of this is john lyons really and none of us know exactly what

is going on because it's a trial which, which was over a year ago that there's been no verdict. that's right. and you know, the, the, the dates house around why she was the time why she was in daughters why she was charged. what she was tried with, we don't night is pay night transparency around any of that, which of course is a point that out foreign minister and others have made or pay the land of prime minister most recently. united sort of not the to the levels of a bi suggest a step that certainly way use the site. um the short answer is, are, you know, we don't know what this is about. um, none of that makes any sense to me. i mean, i know there are better as well as anybody in the context of a professional career. she was working with by c, g, t and, and, and before that, cnbc united. so i'm positive stories about china's business engagement with the

world and, and the wells business engagement with china inside the id that she wouldn't have any access to sensitive side secrets. let a line do anything with that information to amazing, frankly, websites, i, i don't know why this happens. uh, and it makes no sense. it hasn't done so. you know, a 1000 dies and it probably never will. last seen a life faces life in jail, if convicted in, in china, you know, as well as i do, the defendants are found guilty in 99 percent of the cases. what are the prospects for the it's up to the chinese system. how do i want to handle these kind of sits been moving in by seo state up until now i understand how the chinese system works . but it's, um, there's no reason why this can't be brought to a swift and compassionate conclusion is the right will is day to make that happen. and that's where i sincerely high will happen because i think it's on the road.

i've come to lie input to children who are the most important factors and all of this, but frankly, it's the best outcome. so for everybody and we can move on to so i can see on, you know, the more or less and lessons and then psych us on the more positive aspects of biological engagement and multi lecturing guides going across the region. the bottom are all of us right in general is chung lake who is the tides or has been detained now for over a 1000 days? emerging. thank you very much for joining us here on dw sasha. that's an excellent place at any time. the we're in the final stretch before thailand is general election. it's the 1st pole since the pro democracy protests of 2020 a government crackdown. they use lead movement made demonstrating too dangerous for many, but some form of protest as have shifted their focus from the streets to the ballot box. and hoping sunday's election will bring about change. a symbol of resistance

as a much for workers rights and benco. it's a familiar site for puts that are really trying to keep the ball upon known by his nickname, mind, she was among the lead, is up to 2020 pro democracy protests. now she's live streaming events like this one to tens of thousands of followers and adding them to take part in the upcoming election. important the funny doing facebook life because we want to normalize the debates on political issues. in thailand, politics seems difficult to discuss. we want to simplify it that all the time. well, what hang on it. i got ahead of the boat mind is hosting discussions with candidates from political parties across the spectrum and breaking down the campaign promises for hub us but mind knows that's good reason for many ties to avoid politics. she's facing 15 criminal charges

for her part in the ways of protests that broke out in 2020 back then young demonstrate has called for an end to minute 3 role and reforms to the countries powerful monica the demands were renewed and the government crackdown on the movement hundreds of protesters were charged on the article 112, a little that makes, criticizing thailand's royals a crime. but the protest brooke, once to do to pick select the money key into the open. now vote is this selection, want to know web parties stand this film, the process is now in the campaign. sure of himself. he had a jung tape, known as toto is running as a candidate for the pro reform move forward policy. during the protest, see that the volunteer security group fuel suffices jail time of the us to 112. now he's determined to push for change from inside parliament. that old guy law. i just

want the basic principles of living together in society that when democracy to justice and the 3 have freedom of expression, why and lastly, free and fair competition. right? scrapes of ones that thailand's latest ami draft, the constitution leaves opposition parties like total disadvantage. but touch has already proven he doesn't give up easily whether on the streets or at the bonnet books. he says he won't stop fighting to thailand's future. thanks for joining us. see you next to the use of species populate our planet. most of them are here long before us when human escape that the mass extinction began

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