Issue of
December 8, 1999
 
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Chinese court convicts
scholar Hua Di, family says
On Friday, Dec. 3,
President Gerhard Casper issued the following statement:
"Stanford University
learned this week that Hua Di, a social science research
associate at the Center for International Security and
Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford, was convicted by a
Chinese court of leaking Chinese state secrets and
sentenced to 15 years in prison. This news was relayed by
members of Mr. Hua's family to his colleagues at
CISAC."
Casper said the university
had no further information about the disposition of Hua's
case.
Since July 1989, Hua has
been an associate at CISAC, where he worked on the
center's Project on Peace and Cooperation in the
Asian-Pacific region. Hua, a former high-ranking official
in China's missile program, was arrested in the People's
Republic of China while on a visit there in January 1998,
and charged with leaking unspecified Chinese state
secrets. Hua is a permanent resident of the United States
and had plans to become a citizen, according to
colleagues at CISAC. SR
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