China sentences 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison for spying – By Gareth Evans (BBC News) / May 15, 2023
A Chinese court has sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison on spying charges.
John Shing-Wan Leung, who is a permanent resident in Hong Kong, was jailed on Monday.
The court in the south-eastern city of Suzhou gave no further details of the allegations against him.
Leung was arrested in the city two years ago by a local bureau of China’s counterintelligence agency, a news release from the court said.
He “was found guilty of espionage, sentenced to life imprisonment [and] deprived of political rights for life”, according to the statement from the Intermediate People’s Court, which was posted on the WeChat social media platform.
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