A British court has jailed two men linked to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London for up to 10 years for spying on activists, prompting immediate condemnation from the city government, which reiterated that their convictions involved “unfounded allegations and smearing”.
Bill Yuen Chung-biu, an office manager at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, was sentenced to eight years in prison for assisting a foreign intelligence service on Thursday.
Co-defendant Peter Wai…