Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who was detained in China for three years on charges of "illegally providing China’s state security secrets abroad," recently returned to Australia and disclosed experiencing a "sophisticated form of torture" during her ordeal.
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00:00 My experience was the first five months I got to read books and I had a pen and paper
00:07 with which to write and that was much less painful than the final month of just 12 hours
00:20 a day of pure sitting and very little chance to get up and just walk, just pace around
00:29 a very little room.
00:30 They say that they gave me 15 minutes of fresh air but all they meant was there's a window
00:39 up the top that the guard would open for 15 minutes but the curtains are still drawn.
00:45 One of the first songs I heard in the car on the radio was 'Boys of Summer' and I thought
00:51 if there was a nuclear holocaust there'd still be some Australian radio station playing 'Boys
00:57 of Summer'.
00:59 I think that's the best thing I've ever heard.
01:00 I think that's the best thing I've ever heard.
01:01 I think that's the best thing I've ever heard.
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