US citizen and business woman Sandy Phan-Gillis, held in china since 2015 charged with violating its national security
A Houston, Texas, businesswoman held in China since March last year is expected to be charged with violating its national security, Newsweek reported on Thursday, citing a U.S. State Department official. Phan Gillis worked in Shenzan province of peoples Republic of China as North American representative NAOS Sandy Phan-Gillis [pictured centre], who has Chinese ancestry and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in March 2015 while about to leave China for Macau and has been held without charges since then. “Chinese authorities have informed us that they will bring a case against Ms. Phan-Gillis to the Nanning Intermediate People’s Court,” An intermediate people's court, Chinese: 中级人民法院 ,is the second lowest local people's court in China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the intermediate people's courts handle relevant important local cases in the first instance and hear appeal cases from the ba...