CHINA
China Convicts US Businesswoman of Spying
Chun Han Wong and Charles Hutzler, WALL STREET JOURNAL
A Chinese court convicted a long-detained American businesswoman of espionage and ordered her imprisoned and deported in a case seen as a barometer of US-China relations. After a half-day trial Tuesday, the court ordered Phan Phan-Gillis imprisoned for three and a half years and deported for espionage. The judge didn’t say if Ms. Phan-Gillis, a 57-year-old business consultant from Houston who has already been detained for two years, would be deported before serving the remainder of her term. How her punishment is carried out will likely determine …read more
Source: Victims of Communism
