HOLMES: Australia says a Chinese-Australian writer is being held in Beijing in quote, "unacceptable conditions". 53-year-old Yang Hengjun was arrested in August in Beijing for allegedly spying seven months after he was detained in southern China. Australia claims the writer is being isolated from the outside world including his family and being interrogated while shackled. Yang has a large following on Twitter where he has criticized the Chinese government. The freed hostage Timothy Weeks is speaking out after more than three years in Taliban captivity. Weeks is now back home in Australia. He and a U.S. citizen were freed last month in exchange for three high- ranking militants. The two men are professors who were captured while traveling together in Afghanistan in 2016. On Sunday Weeks gave his first public interview detailing how several rescue attempts failed.</s>WEEKS: We were told by our guards that it was</s>HOLMES: Weeks also said it was very emotional reuniting with his loved ones and that he never gave up hope that he would be eventually rescued. Thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM and spending part of your day with us. I'm Michael Holmes. "WORLD SPORT" is up next. You will see Rosemary Church in about 15 minutes.
Freed Taliban Hostage Speaks Out.