China Sentences 78-12 months-Outdated US Citizen to Life in Jail on Spying Fees

BEIJING (AP) — China sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in jail Monday on spying expenses.

John Shing-Wan Leung, who holds everlasting residency in Hong Kong, was detained April 15, 2021, by the counterintelligence company within the southeastern metropolis of Suzhou. The town’s intermediate courtroom introduced Leung’s sentence in a quick assertion on its social media web site however gave no particulars of the costs.

Such investigations and trials are held behind closed doorways and little or no info is made public.

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