Five Indicted in Bid to Quiet China Critics Include DHS Officer
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An officer of the US Department of Homeland Security was indicted in an alleged scheme to silence critics of the Chinese government, along with a former DHS worker and three others.
The other three, who were initially charged in March, conspired to act as agents of China, including by stalking, spying on and discrediting pro-democracy dissidents in the US, according to the indictment, returned on Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.