Chinese embassy in UK decries jailing of 2 Hongkongers for spying

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The Chinese embassy in the UK condemned the sentencing of two men linked to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London for spying on activists, calling on the British government to stop alleged slander and suppression. The sentenced individuals include Bill Yuen Chung-biu and Peter Wai Chi-leung, accused of espionage.

The Chinese embassy in the UK has called on the British government to “stop its acts of slander and suppression” after a court jailed two men linked to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London for up to 10 years for spying on activists. Bill Yuen Chung-biu, an office manager at the office, was sentenced on Thursday to eight years behind bars for assisting a foreign intelligence service, while co-defendant Peter Wai Chi-leung, a security firm operator and former part-time UK Border Force...