Ex-Zoom China Employee Faces U.S. Dissident Censoring Charge
- Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations
- Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation
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A former Zoom Video Communications Inc. executive working in China has been charged by the U.S. with conspiring to censor Chinese dissidents and disrupt a video conference commemorating the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, say Xinjiang “Julien” Jin, 39, was a San Jose, California-based telecommunications company’s main liaison with law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the People’s Republic of China. While Jin’s employer wasn’t identified by prosecutors, Zoom said on Friday it was the company.