The Forbidden City in Beijing in 1984, the year a Hongkong-born, Harvard-trained lawyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison in China for espionage. Photo: Getty Images
When China jailed a Hong Kong lawyer for spying for the United States
- Hanson Huang was sentenced to 15 years in prison for passing classified information on China’s energy resources to the US, The Post reported in 1984
- A year later it reported Huang had, unusually, been paroled despite protesting his innocence, but that he could not talk to the press and must stay in Peking
The Forbidden City in Beijing in 1984, the year a Hongkong-born, Harvard-trained lawyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison in China for espionage. Photo: Getty Images
