Dong Yuyu, a veteran journalist from Chinese state media, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for espionage. His family claims the verdict is a grave injustice, highlighting the perceived bankruptcy of China's justice system.
Dong Yuyu built a career as a journalist at a time when meeting foreigners wasn't looked on with suspicion in China.Share article
"Sentencing Yuyu to seven years in prison on no evidence declares to the world the bankruptcy of the justice system in China," Dong's family said in a statement provided to Reuters. Dong's conviction implied every Chinese citizen would be "expected to know that the Chinese government may consider those embassies to be 'espionage organisations'", it said, which would cause a chilling effect.Police guarded the court on Friday, with seven police cars parked nearby, and journalists were asked to leave the area. A US diplomat said they had been barred from attending the hearing.
The Japanese diplomat he met, one of two he had regularly met in the past, was also detained for several hours, spurring a complaint from Japan's foreign ministry.
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