{"id":158512,"date":"2026-10-08T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158512"},"modified":"2026-10-08T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:00:13","slug":"us-judge-blocks-release-of-alleged-beijing-agent-accused-of-filming-taiwan-leaders-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158512","title":{"rendered":"US judge blocks release of alleged Beijing agent accused of filming Taiwan leader\u2019s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA federal judge on Wednesday ordered Wanying \u201cHeather\u201d Zhang be held in custody, after her lawyers \u2013 who had fought to keep her out of jail \u2013 said she \u201clooks forward to establishing\u201d her innocence at trial.<br \/>\nThey argued that the US government\u2019s case centred on a single day of alleged surveillance in Seattle and was not evidence that she posed a flight risk.<br \/>\nUS Magistrate Judge Steve Kim sided with prosecutors, who told him that Zhang\u2019s parents and siblings lived in China and that her brother had&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3370146\/us-judge-blocks-release-alleged-beijing-agent-accused-filming-taiwan-leaders-son?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA federal judge on Wednesday ordered Wanying \u201cHeather\u201d Zhang be held in custody, after her lawyers \u2013 who had fought to keep her out&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}