Evidence Suggests UK Businessman Was Held in Secret Beijing Facility

Evidence suggests British national Ian Stones was secretly held in a facility managed by China’s spy agency before he was moved to regular detention and sentenced over an espionage charge, according to human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders (SD). Beijing last week confirmed the conviction of Mr. Stones in 2022 after The Wall Street Journal reported that the businessman, who is around 70 and has worked in China for about 40 years, had disappeared from public view since 2018. According to the report, Mr. Stones’s daughter Laura Stones said neither the family nor British Embassy staff had been allowed to see any related legal documents, and there has been “no confession to the alleged crime.”...