US Authorities Arrest Boston Man Accused of Providing China With ‘Blacklist’ of Dissidents

US Authorities Arrest Boston Man Accused of Providing China With ‘Blacklist’ of Dissidents
Litang Liang in Boston Chinatown in 2017. Jianyu Huang/The Epoch Times
Aldgra Fredly
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The U.S. authorities on May 9 arrested a man who is believed to have been secretly providing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a “blacklist” of U.S.-based pro-democracy dissidents from 2018 to 2022.

Litang Liang, 64, a U.S. citizen living in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, is charged with conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government and of doing so without notice to the United States, according to an indictment (pdf) reported by the Boston Globe.