Chinese court rejects appeal by journalist jailed for espionage: family

A Chinese court on Thursday rejected an appeal by veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu, who had been sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage charges, his family said in a statement.

Dong, a senior columnist at the Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in February 2022 along with a Japanese diplomat at a Beijing restaurant.

The diplomat was released after a few hours of questioning, but Dong, now 63, was charged with spying in 2023 and sentenced to seven years in prison last November.

Beijing's High Court on Thursday upheld Dong's sentence following his appeal, his family said in a statement posted on media platform Substack, calling it a "shameless act of persecution".

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