Prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York on Friday announced charges against a man described as the videoconference company Zoom’s “primary liaison” with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence services, alleging that the man conspired to disrupt Zoom meetings organized to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and block activists’ accounts.

Xinjiang Jin, also known as Julien Jin, lives in China and was not in U.S. custody as of midday Friday, the day his arrest warrant was unsealed and nearly a month after it was issued. Jin is charged with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification, according to court documents.

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