China said Friday it had sentenced a British national in 2022 to five years in jail for spying, in its official confirmation of a case that had gone unreported until this week.The Wall Street ...

British businessman Ian Stones was in 2022 sentenced to five ... company employee was detained on suspicion of spying. Mr Stones's case was not publicly known until it was reported on Thursday ...

The defendant - named as Ian J Stones - committed the "crime of illegally ... The spokesman added that he had appealed against the sentencing but the case was upheld last September.