MEAA Media members Julian Assange and Cheng Lei are both detained overseas. Their detention represents a grave threat to the media’s ability to ensure the public’s right to know is upheld. — Cheng Lei On March 25, 2022, reports said Australian journalist and MEAA Media member Cheng Lei, who had been detained in China for more than 19 months, would be put on trial, likely in a closed court, on state secrets charges that could see her face anything from “a short sentence to…