on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us officials said in a conference this afternoon. the defendants actions under the direction of the chinese government are flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and arest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the mp5 is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. let s look at what we know. the secret station is believed to be a a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe( in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands.and last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two sites in montreal thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray spoke about this in november, saying to me, it is outrageous to think that the chinese police
an unprecedented sentence, particularly in the post soviet era. you know, we should note that the judge who sentenced him was a judge who was on the magnitsky list and he himself, vladimir kara murza, had campaigned after the death of magnitsky to push russian human rights violators on this list and ban them from travel, certainly to the us. and this veryjudge who also sentenced magnitsky has also sentenced kara murza. it is a sign that the kremlin is so concerned about opposition to the war that this is supposed to deter anyone from speaking out against it. a 25 year prison sentence is unprecedented. why do you think the kremlin sees kara murza as a threat? because he has consistently spoken out about russian human rights abuses for years now. he was a friend of