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LONDON \u2014 A former U.K. border official and a retired Hong Kong police officer were given prison sentences on Thursday for spying on dissidents and critics of Beijing in Britain.<\/p>\n

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Border Force officer Peter Wai and Bill Yuen, a former superintendent in the Hong Kong Police, posed as police or intelligence officers to conduct surveillance and gather information about Hong Kong dissidents and pro-democracy supporters, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

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Their targets included former Hong Kong lawmaker Nathan Law and activists they referred to as \u201ccockroaches,\u201d as well as British politicians critical of China, according to the prosecutors.<\/p>\n

A jury found the two Chinese-British nationals guilty last month of breaching the National Security Act by assisting a foreign intelligence service. Wai was also convicted of misconduct in a public office for using a government computer to seek information on people of interest to the Hong Kong authorities.<\/p>\n

At London\u2019s Central Criminal Court, Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb sentenced Wai, 41, to 10 years, and Yuen, 66, to an eight-year term in prison.<\/p>\n

She said the defendants\u2019 \u201cdeliberate, concerted, and serious\u201d actions had left those targeted in fear and distress.<\/p>\n

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Wai was an officer in London\u2019s Metropolitan Police before joining the U.K. Border Force. Yuen was office manager at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, the official overseas representative of Hong Kong\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

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Helen Flanagan, commander for Counter Terrorism Policing London, said that \u201cthe activity of Wai and Yuen was truly chilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were spying and targeting individuals in the U.K. who were pro-democracy campaigners and were simply protesting against the Hong Kong and Chinese government and authorities and seeking sanctuary in the U.K.,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang was summoned to the British Foreign Office after the convictions last month. At the time of the convictions, China\u2019s Embassy in the U.K. called the case a political farce intended to support anti-China forces who had fled to Britain.<\/p>\n

The Hong Kong government said the allegations \u201care absolutely unrelated\u201d to the government or the Economic and Trade Office.<\/p>\n

British authorities \u201cinitiated the case on groundless accusations, abused law and manipulated judicial procedures to secure conviction,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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