The Latest Breaking News from Espionage

A 78-year-old U.S. citizen and Hong Kong resident was on Monday convicted of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in eastern China, a court statement said.

Hong Kong resident John Shing Wan Leung was chair of Texas branch of Chinese ‘reunification’ association

Seventy-eight-year-old American passport holder and Hong Kong resident John Shing-wan Leung is sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Gershkovich is being held Russia on an espionage charge where the U.S. authorities have labeled him wrongfully detained.

The Justice Department says it has disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage campaign that stole sensitive information from computer networks in dozens of countries, including the U.S. and other NATO members

Five months after Tehran’s execution of Alireza Akbari on charges of espionage for Britain, the New York Times quoted Israeli and Iranian sources as saying that the former official was an unexpected spy because of his loyalty to the regime. Akbari, the former deputy defense minister of Iran, played an…

US president says he is ‘working like hell’ to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held in Russia on espionage charges

Amendments to the Counter-Espionage Law will arm counter-intelligence personnel with additional tools such as access to data and property information

Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or their Chinese contacts

After three days of discussions, China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passes the first update to anti-spying laws in almost a decade, under which authorities can gain access to data, information on personal property and ban border crossings.