U.S. authorities have charged a Florida telecommunications worker with years-long spying on the persecuted Falun Gong community and other Chinese dissidents on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a newly unsealed federal indictment shows.
The man, Ping Li, is a U.S. citizen who immigrated from China. For over 13 years, from around January 2012 through to July this year, Mr. Li allegedly worked as a cooperative agent for the Ministry of State Security—China’s top intelligence gathering agency.
Under the requests of an officer from the ministry in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the 59-year-old collected personal details of Chinese dissidents, pro-democracy activists, U.S. politicians and nonprofits, and practitioners and supporters of the spiritual group Falun Gong, which the regime has tried for 25 years to eliminate through various forms of persecution, brainwashing, and torture….