The Chinese government last Thursday announced that it has formally detained a Canadian man accused of stealing state secrets after months under house arrest, while releasing his wife, also a Canadian, on bail.
During a press briefing on Feb. 5, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hong Lei said that Kevin Garratt was now being held in a criminal detention center by the Dandong division of the Ministry of State Security “for suspected theft of and prying into state secrets.” His wife, Julia Garratt, has been released on the condition that she not leave China for one year, according to a statement from the family’s lawyer, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Beijing partner James Zimmerman.
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