China imposes death sentence for selling encryption secrets

Published April 19, 2016 12:26pm ET



A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for selling 150,000 documents revealing government and military encryption secrets over the span of nearly a decade.

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Huang Yu, 41, took in about $700,000 for selling the documents to an unidentified foreign spy agency from 2002 to 2011, state-backed broadcaster CCTV reported. Huang, a computer technician at a research firm, started selling the documents after he began receiving poor performance reviews, according to the Associated Press.

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