In March 2015, Sandy Phan-Gillis, a 57-year-old American businesswoman had been accused of spying by China. She was sentenced to three and a half years in prison but she had already spent more than two years in detention before her trial. Jeff Gillis, her husband, said that his wife was accused of visiting the country twice on spy missions in 1996, and working with the FBI to capture two Chinese spies in the US and turn them into double agents. He has campaigned to overturn the spying charge and to win her freedom. However, her passport showed she didn’t travel to China in 1996.
A Chinese court ordered her deportation and she left China on Friday and arrived in Los Angeles the same day.
Jeff Gillis continues to claim that his wife wasn’t a spy for the American authorities and that the accusation is unjust. He said that during her imprisonment, Sandy couldn’t speak with her lawyers and was tortured by Chinese Security to extort a false confession.
Her release is a sign of warmer relations between China and the US.
Mathilde
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