'Missing' Chinese-Australian writer says he will head home

ByREUTERS

APRIL 1, 2011 07:36

BEIJING - A Chinese-Australian writer

whose disappearance in China ignited alarm during a crackdown on

dissent said on Friday he is safe and plans to return to

Australia in coming days.

The novelist and blogger, Yang Hengjun, an Australian

national born in China, was reported by friends to be missing on

Sunday, prompting concern from Australia, whose Prime Minister

Julia Gillard is due to visit China this month.

On Wednesday, Yang contacted friends who feared he had been

held by security police in Guangdong province in far southern

China in a crackdown on dissidents. Yang often visits China and

keeps a Chinese-language blog that airs his liberal views.

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