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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Namita Singh

Chinese engineer sentenced to death for leaking state secrets

A Chinese court has sentenced an engineer to death for espionage and selling state secrets to foreign intelligence services, the Ministry of State Security said.

The former assistant engineer at a research institute, identified only by his surname Liu, was held guilty of leaking sensitive information, a crime that the ministry said had severely endangered national security.

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