70-year-old detained in secrets leak case
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A 70-year-old Beijing woman has been detained on suspicion of leaking state secrets to foreign contacts, police in the capital said yesterday.
Gao Yu is suspected of illegally obtaining a highly confidential document and sending an electronic copy to an overseas website in June last year, a police statement said.
The document was published on the website and widely reposted abroad, the statement added.
Police detained her on April 24 and seized substantial evidence at her residence, it said.
Gao is said to have expressed deep remorse about her actions.
The police statement quoted her as saying she deeply regretted that her behavior had harmed the nation’s interests and violated the law and she was willing to accept punishment.
The case is under further investigation, it added.
Footage aired by China Central Television showed Gao, wearing an orange vest over a grey detainee’s uniform, walking along a hallway escorted by two police officers to a room where she appeared to be questioned. Gao’s face was blurred out in the footage, but she was heard expressing contrition.
“I think what I did broke the law and endangered the interests of the nation. This was very wrong,” Gao said. “I have sincerely learned my lesson and also wish to admit guilt.”
In 1993, Gao was sentenced to six years in prison for leaking state secrets.
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