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Gao Yu’s Family Under Surveillance Amid Security Clampdown in Beijing

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Policemen take the identity of journalists before sentencing of Chinese journalist Gao Yu, April 17, 2015.
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Beijing police are keeping the family of jailed veteran political journalist Gao Yu under close surveillance and tightening security in the Chinese capital, Continue reading

China Jails Gao Yu For Seven Years For ‘Leaking State Secrets’

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image (62)Demonstrators hold placards with portraits of Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a protest in support of her outside the central government liaison office in Hong Kong, April 17, 2015.AFP
A Beijing court on Friday handed a seven-year jail term to veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu after finding her guilty of “leaking state secrets overseas,” it said.

The Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court found 71-year-old political journalist Gao Yu guilty of “breaking international law and supplying highly classified state secrets to persons overseas,” Continue reading

China jails journalist over leaked ‘state secrets’

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Gao Yu, seen here in a file image taken in Hong Kong on 5 February 2007

Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad

China has jailed a top journalist for seven years for leaking a confidential paper to a foreign website.

Gao Yu, 71, had “illegally provided state secrets to foreigners”, the court in Beijing said. Continue reading

China jails journalist Gao Yu over ‘state secrets’

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Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad

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Beijing Court To Issue Verdict in Gao Yu ‘State Secrets’ Case

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Gao Yu speaks at an International PEN conference in Hong Kong, Feb. 5, 2007.
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A court in the Chinese capital will announce a verdict in the case of outspoken veteran journalist Gao Yu on Friday after repeatedly delaying judgment Continue reading

Game of Pawns: China’s version

Alia | May 8th, 2014 – 5:05 am

Apparently, college students are hot on the spy market right now, in both China and the US.

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A month after the FBI rolled out a cheesy microfilm “Game of Pawns: The Glenn Duffie Shriver Story” about an American college student who was recruited to spy for China, Beijing releases its own Shriver stories of Chinese college students being recruited by foreign intelligence agencies for espionage activities.

In the FBI story, Shriver, a Michigan native who studied in Shanghai, was approached by a Chinese woman who later turned out to work for the Chinese government. Shriver was encouraged to seek US government jobs, more specifically, at the CIA, with the aim of accessing classified information. He pleaded guilty to espionage charges in 2012 and was sentenced to 4 years.

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