US judge blocks release of alleged Beijing agent accused of filming Taiwan leaderโs son
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Wanying โHeatherโ Zhang be held in custody, after her lawyers โ who had fought to keep her out of jail โ said she โlooks forward to establishingโ her innocence at trial. They argued that the US governmentโs case centred on a single day of alleged surveillance in Seattle and was not evidence that she posed a flight risk. US Magistrate Judge Steve Kim sided with prosecutors, who told him that Zhangโs parents and siblings lived in China and that her brother had...