The US Department of Justice explained the charges against the citizen—Photo: Reuters
Washington: The US Department of Justice has charged a citizen from New York with spying for China.
According to Al Jazeera, US prosecutors have charged Yuwanjun Teng from New York with spying for China, who was involved in the pro-democracy movement in China that led to the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
Yuwanjun Teng is accused of acting as an agent for China’s Ministry of National Security (MSS) from 2018 to 2023 and making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Justice Department said in a statement. is
The statement said Yuwanjun provided the country’s top intelligence agency, MSS, with information on various citizens and groups, including Chinese-Americans who are prominent pro-democracy figures, who may be against Chinese interests. were
The Justice Department said the 67-year-old used a dedicated email account, encrypted chats, text messages and video calls to pass information to his handler and later falsely told the FBI that he had access to the email. are not able to.
According to the report, Yuwanjun, originally from China’s northeastern Jilin province, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Chinese authorities in 1989 for leading a pro-democracy movement that led to the bloody crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. It was down.
The said citizen was released after 8 years of imprisonment and before escaping to Taiwan, he continued to work for democracy in China and was also arrested, but in 2002 a human rights organization working in Taipei granted him political asylum. Helped to take.
On the other hand, in the statement of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, it was said that there is no information regarding this case.
