Australian mother marks nine months in Chinese prison as curious online posts emerge

An Australian mother of two detained in China for allegedly leaking state secrets has told Australian diplomats she has been warned her family should not raise her case in the media.

Cheng Lei, a former Chinese state-television journalist and news anchor, has repeatedly been denied access to a lawyer and is being held without charge in a Beijing prison.

She is being kept in a cell with two others and is brought to a different…