"I Miss The Sun": Australian Journalist Jailed In China

Cheng Lei describes her bleak prison conditions in a candid note dictated to Australian officials from her cell.

Jailed Australian journalist Cheng Lei yearns for her children and the country's "psychedelic sunsets", she said in a rare public letter marking three years since her mysterious arrest in China.

Cheng describes her bleak prison conditions in a candid note dictated to Australian officials from her cell, casting new light on a long-running point of friction between Canberra and Beijing.

"I miss the sun," reads the message, described as a "love letter" to Australia.