Founder of NYC Pro-Democracy Group Pleads Guilty to Spying for China

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Founder of NYC Pro-Democracy Group Pleads Guilty to Spying for China
Founder of NYC Pro-Democracy Group Pleads Guilty to Spying for China

The Department of Justice in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

A Chinese man living in New York City has pleaded guilty to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese regime’s intelligence agency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Sept. 16.

Tang Yuanjun, 68, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was a prominent figure in New York City’s Chinese dissident community, having participated in protests outside the Chinese Consulate in the New York City borough of Manhattan and founded a pro-democracy group, the Chinese Democracy Party Eastern U.S. Headquarters Inc., based in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens.

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