{"id":103148,"date":"2023-09-11T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/parliamentary-researcher-arrested-over-suspicion-of-spying-for-china-says-hes-completely-innocent\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:00:02","slug":"parliamentary-researcher-arrested-over-suspicion-of-spying-for-china-says-hes-completely-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/parliamentary-researcher-arrested-over-suspicion-of-spying-for-china-says-hes-completely-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary researcher arrested over suspicion of spying for China says he&#8217;s &#8216;completely innocent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/qRlLVw2u14s\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Parliamentary researcher arrested over suspicion of spying for China says he's 'completely innocent'\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qRlLVw2u14s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The news that a parliamentary researcher has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China has caused consternation amongst MPs.<\/p>\n<p>(Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe) <\/p>\n<p>Despite their alarm, they were told they should not raise the matter in the Commons to avoid prejudicing any future prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher insisted through lawyers that he is \u201ccompletely innocent\u201d and said has spent his career highlighting the \u201cthreats presented by the Chinese Communist Party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in March but details were only released at the weekend when it emerged that he had links with senior Tories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that a parliamentary researcher has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China has caused consternation amongst MPs. (Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe) Despite their alarm, they were told they should not raise the matter in the Commons to avoid prejudicing any future prosecution. The researcher insisted through lawyers that he is \u201ccompletely innocent\u201d and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[128917,129689,129251],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-103148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-news","tag-parliamentary","tag-that"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parliamentary researcher arrested over suspicion of spying for China says he&#039;s &#039;completely innocent&#039; | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Parliamentary researcher arrested over suspicion of spying for China says he&#039;s &#039;completely innocent&#039; for free, here on News ISC. 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