Wed Apr 26, 2017 | 12:00am EDT
China court sentences U.S. citizen to jail for espionage, then orders deportationA Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a U.S. citizen to three-years and six-months in prison for espionage but then ordered she be deported, her lawyer said, in a case that has added to U.S.-China tension.
Sandy Phan-Gillis, who has Chinese ancestry and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in March 2015 while about to leave mainland China for the Chinese-ruled, former Portuguese colony of Macau, and had been held without charges since then.
She had plead guilty during a trial in the southwestern city of Nanning and was not planning to appeal, lawyer Shang Baojun told Reuters.
"She will probably be exported to the U.S. soon, but we do not know the exact date yet," Shang said, adding that
she was being held in a police station in the meantime.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-rights-idUSKBN17R1LV
