Chinese American man convicted in US of spying on dissidents for China

Shujun Wang helped found a pro-democracy group and used it to gain information on dissidents, prosecutors say

A Chinese American scholar was convicted on Tuesday in the US on charges of using his reputation as a pro-democracy activist to gather information on dissidents and feed it to his homeland's government.

A federal jury in New York delivered the verdict in the case of Shujun Wang, who helped found a pro-democracy group in the city.