PRAGUE: A man suspected of spying for China and detained in the Czech Republic will stand trial for the crime of “unauthorised activity for a foreign power”, a court said Wednesday.
The man has been in pre-trial custody since being detained in January, according to media reports.
“I can confirm the court will deal with the matter,” Katerina Eliasova, a spokeswoman for the Municipal Court in Prague, told AFP.
She said the man, a Chinese national, was charged with “unauthorised activity for a foreign power” but declined to give further details, including on any trial date.
The Seznam Zpravy news site said earlier the man was the Prague correspondent of a daily run by the Communist Party of China.
He met Czech and Slovak officials in this capacity and tried to obtain information from them.
