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Boston man found not guilty of being a Chinese agent
Li Tang Liang, 65, of Brighton had been accused by federal prosecutors of providing Chinese officials with information on pro-democracy activists.
A Brighton man, accused of providing Chinese officials with information about pro-democracy activists and advocates in the Boston area, was found not guilty of the charges against him by a federal jury on Monday, The Boston Globe reports.
Li Tang Liang, a 65-year-old U.S. citizen, was found not guilty of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and acting as an agent of a foreign government without notice to the U.S. attorney general
According to the Globe, Liang said through an interpreter as he was leaving the courthouse that “justice has finally arrived.”
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“I love my ancestral home, China,” he said. “And I love the USA. I’m innocent.”
Liang was arrested in May 2023 on the charges. He was accused of providing officials with the People’s Republic of China information on Boston-area individuals and organizations starting in 2018 with the goal to “covertly advance the PRC government’s goals and agenda within the United States,” the indictment alleged.
“This is a case that essentially lets every Chinese American know that there’s a difference between exercising your constitutional right and breaking the law, which Mr. Liang did not do,” Liang’s attorney, Derege Demissie said, according to the Globe. “We are elated we were able to prove that at no time was he an agent of or a spy of the Chinese government.”
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