Boston man discovered not responsible of being a Chinese language agent

Li Tang Liang, 65, of Brighton had been accused by federal prosecutors of offering Chinese language officers with data on pro-democracy activists.

Li Tang Liang was discovered not responsible on Monday of costs that he was secretly working with the Chinese language authorities. David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe

A Brighton man, accused of offering Chinese language officers with details about pro-democracy activists and advocates within the Boston space, was discovered not responsible of the fees towards him by a federal jury on Monday, The Boston Globe experiences.

Li Tang Liang, a 65-year-old U.S. citizen, was discovered not responsible of conspiracy to behave as an agent of a overseas authorities and appearing as an agent of a overseas authorities with out discover to the U.S. lawyer normal

In accordance with the Globe, Liang stated by way of an interpreter as he was leaving the courthouse that “justice has lastly arrived.”

“I like my ancestral residence, China,” he stated. “And I like the USA. I’m harmless.”

Liang was arrested in Might 2023 on the fees. He was accused of offering officers with the Folks’s Republic of China data on Boston-area people and organizations beginning in 2018 with the aim to “covertly advance the PRC authorities’s objectives and agenda inside america,” the indictment alleged.

“It is a case that primarily lets each Chinese language American know that there’s a distinction between exercising your constitutional proper and breaking the regulation, which Mr. Liang didn’t do,” Liang’s lawyer, Derege Demissie stated, in line with the Globe. “We’re elated we have been capable of show that at no time was he an agent of or a spy of the Chinese language authorities.”