Sweden jails Uighur Chinese man for spying – China News

www.reuters.com — (Reuters) - Sweden has sentenced a Uighur man to a year and four months in prison for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to agents for the Chinese state, a court document showed Monday.

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