A Hong Kong journalist who was jailed in mainland China on spying charges has been released after serving less than half a five-year sentence.
Ching Cheong was detained in 2005 and sentenced to five years in jail in a case that angered human rights groups.
Chinese officials accused him of buying information and passing it to Taiwan - charges his family and his employer, Singapore's Straits Times, rejected.
He has now returned to Hong Kong to spend Lunar New Year with his family.
The Chinese government has granted Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong journalist, parole. Ching was arrested in April 2005 in Guangzhou, China. He was arrested after traveling to China to collect documents about Zhao Ziyang, a former chinese leader, and he will now return to Hong Kong to spend the new year with his family.
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