He goes by the name Eric and he is 39-years-old. He recently fled China and settled in Australia. Upon arriving, Eric identified himself as a former spy working for the Chinese government. He also contacted Australia’s ABC news to tell his story.
It started when he was just 22-years-old. He joined a party called the China Social Democratic Party and wrote about what they were doing on social media. That led to a visit from the police.
“They told me, ‘Get dressed and follow us. You know what you’ve done’,” Eric says.
He was taken from his home, interrogated over several days in a small room inside a local police station, and forced to sign a document confessing to his ‘crime’ of opposing the Chinese government.
Threatened with jail time, he was offered a second chance.
The second chance was to become a spy working for China’s secret police. Having little choice, he agreed…
