The United States has called for the immediate release of veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu, who was sentenced this Friday (29) to seven years in prison for espionage.
Dong’s sentence was “unjust” and highlighted China’s “failure to live up to its commitments under international law and its own constitutional guarantees to all of its citizens,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. .
“We support Dong and his family and call for their immediate and unconditional release,” he added.
Police in the Chinese capital detained the former Guangming Daily editor and journalist in February 2022 while he was having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, the US National Press Club said in an official statement.
He was later accused of espionage.
According to the journalist’s family, during the court sentencing, the Japanese diplomats Yuyu met with were specifically named as “agents of a ‘spy organization’ based at the Japanese embassy in Beijing.”
*with information from Reuters
This content was originally published in USA criticizes conviction of journalist in China on charges of espionage on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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