CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese Australian writer tried in Beijing for alleged espionage said he pleaded to a judge to reject evidence of what he had said while being tortured by interrogators.Yang Hengjun faced a closed trial last Thursday and the court deferred its verdict to a later date. The Australian government on Friday labeled his incarceration since he arrived in China in January 2019 arbitrary detention. The Associated Press on Monday saw the crime novelist and blogger's account of the legal proceedings circulated among his supporters over the weekend.

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