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Journalist Cheng Lei narrates ordeal

SYDNEY: Jailed Australian journalist Cheng Lei yearns for her children and the country's 'psychedelic sunsets,' she said in a rare public letter marking three years since her mysterious arrest in China.

Cheng describes her bleak prison conditions in a candid note dictated to Australian officials from her cell, casting new light on a long-running point of friction between Canberra and Beijing.