UK Convicts Border Official and Hong Kong Cop in First China Spying Case
The Foreign Office said the convictions exposed shadow policing and surveillance of Hong Kong dissidents, with jurors hearing the operation targeted activists and politicians.
- On Thursday, Security Minister Dan Jarvis announced Britain will summon the Chinese ambassador following the conviction of two men for spying on behalf of Hong Kong and China, stating such activity is "unacceptable on UK soil."
- A jury at London's Old Bailey court found 38-year-old Peter Wai, a former UK Border Force official, and 65-year-old Bill Yuen, a retired Hong Kong police superintendent, guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service under national security laws.
- Targeting pro-democracy dissidents and politicians including Conservative Iain Duncan Smith, the pair conducted "shadow policing," with surveillance of activist Nathan Law dating to 2021 amid bounties of around 100,000.
- China's embassy rejected the accusations as an "abuse of the law," while a Hong Kong government spokesperson firmly opposed "unfounded allegations" against the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London.
- Relations between Britain and China have remained strained since the 2019 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, a territory under British rule for 156 years before reverting to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
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UK Spy Convictions Are "Groundless" and a "Political Stunt" With No Factual Basis - China's Foreign Ministry
China has hit back at the UK after two men were convicted of conducting covert surveillance operations on Hong Kong dissidents in Britain, with Beijing’s Foreign Ministry insisting the prosecutions lacked any factual foundation and amounted to deliberate political interference. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China had “made its principled position clear on this […] The post UK Spy Convictions Are “Groundless” and a “Political Stunt”…
After the verdict in a London espionage trial, there is diplomatic discord between China and the UK.
Two men convicted of spying for China in UK
Two men have been convicted of offences under the National Security Act 2023 after a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation found they had been illegally gathering information on behalf of Hong Kong and Chinese authorities, targeting pro-democracy campaigners based in the United Kingdom, the UK Defence Journal understands. Chi Leung Wai, 40, of Staines-upon-Thames, and Chung Biu Yuen, 65, of Hackney, were found guilty at the Old Bailey on 7 Ma…
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