唐元隽认罪充当中国未注册代理人，曼哈顿联邦法院判缓刑三年、不必入狱
美国纽约州纽约市曼哈顿的联邦法院11月12日对唐元隽（Yuanjun Tang）量刑：现年69岁、住在纽约市皇后区 Flushing 的唐元隽此前承认充当中国未注册代理人，法官 John G. Koeltl 判处他缓刑三年，不必入狱服刑。唐元隽是入籍美国公民，三十多年来一直以批评中国共产党著称。
联邦助理检察官 Jane Chong 请求法官判处五年监禁，那是唐元隽面临的最高刑期：他已于2025年9月承认一项共谋罪，罪名是未向美国司法部长登记、充当中国代理人。法官表示，一些人声称自己与家人因唐元隽的行为受到伤害，这类说法无法得到证实。
检方说，唐元隽至少在2018年至2023年间按中国国家安全部一名情报人员的指示行事，向中国当局提供数十人的信息，还让一名中国联络人加入他与140名华裔人士组建的「中国民主党之友」网络聊天群。他按指示拍摄、录制当地针对中国的抗议活动，包括2023年在曼哈顿纪念六四遇难者的一场活动。检方在法庭文件中说，联邦调查局2023年6月曾告诉唐元隽，他的手机可能被中国植入恶意程式，他随后承认多年来为中国国家安全部执行任务、每年收取约4,200美元。
唐元隽通过中文翻译在庭上说，他背叛了自己的理念，是为了能回中国「再见父母一面」，并说「我对自己的行为深感后悔，我的行为给他人造成了一定的伤害」。其辩护律师 Michael Bradley 说，唐元隽是民主倡导者、作家与活动人士，当时急切想回中国探望生病的父母与兄弟，经人牵线结识了自称能办成此事的人，直到到了中国才知道对方是情报人员，而那时他的母亲与兄弟已经去世。四名自认受害的人在量刑时发言，检方说他们「再也无法不提防身后」，唐元隽的行为对整个群体产生了寒蝉效应。
唐元隽曾参加1989年的学生民主运动，据当时报道，他因参与抗议在中国入狱12年；2002年他经台湾来到美国并获得政治庇护，2018年7月入籍成为美国公民。检方说，到那时他已经在为中国国家安全部提供信息。唐元隽2024年10月被捕，此案是联邦官员所称中国「跨国镇压」行动相关的一系列调查之一。
Yuanjun Tang Sentenced to Three Years' Probation in Manhattan Federal Court After Pleading Guilty to Acting as an Unregistered Agent of China
A federal court in Manhattan, New York City, sentenced Yuanjun Tang on November 12: Tang, 69, who lives in Flushing, Queens, had admitted acting as an unregistered agent of China, and Judge John G. Koeltl sentenced him to three years' probation, with no prison time. Tang is a naturalized U.S. citizen who had been an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party for more than three decades.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Chong had asked for a five-year prison sentence, the maximum Tang faced after pleading guilty in September 2025 to conspiring to act as an agent of the People's Republic of China without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The judge said claims by some individuals who believe they and their families were targeted for harm because of Tang's actions could not be proven.
Prosecutors said that from at least 2018 to 2023, at the direction of an officer of China's Ministry of State Security, Tang provided information on dozens of individuals to Chinese authorities and enabled a Chinese handler to join an online group chat titled “Friends of the Chinese Democracy Party” that he had begun with 140 Chinese-American individuals. He agreed to photograph and record local protests against China, including a 2023 event in Manhattan dedicated to victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. In court papers, prosecutors said the FBI told Tang in June 2023 that his phone likely contained malware planted by China, and that he then confessed he had carried out tasks for the Ministry of State Security for years in return for about $4,200 a year.
Speaking through a Chinese interpreter, Tang told the judge he had betrayed his ideology to visit China and “see my parents again,” adding: “I deeply regret my actions. My actions have caused a certain harm to other people.” His defense attorney, Michael Bradley, said Tang was a democracy advocate, writer and activist who desperately wanted to return to China to visit his ailing parents and brother and made a connection with an individual who thought he could make it happen; the lawyer said Tang did not know the man was a spy until he actually got to China, where his mother and brother had already died. Four individuals who believe they were victimized spoke at the sentencing, and the prosecutor said they “can never stop looking over their shoulders” and that Tang's actions had a chilling effect on an entire community.
Tang participated in the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square demonstrations and, according to reports at the time, was held in a Chinese prison for 12 years for his involvement. In 2002 he defected to Taiwan and then to the United States, where he was granted political asylum, and he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in July 2018. By then, prosecutors said, he was already providing information to the Ministry of State Security. His October 2024 arrest followed several investigations into what federal officials have called China's campaign of “transnational repression.”
来源：美联社
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图片来源：图：位于纽约曼哈顿的 Daniel Patrick Moynihan 美国联邦法院大楼，本案在此量刑（资料图）。Ken Lund 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan, New York, where the sentencing took place (file photo). Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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