Woman branded a Chinese agent by U.K. loses case against MI5

The lawyer had sued the spy agency over a 2022 alert on 'political interference'

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MI5 Director General Ken McCallum in London in 2020. (U.K. government via Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) -- A woman who was branded a Chinese spy by Britain's MI5 has lost her case to sue the domestic spy agency over an alert issued to politicians which said she was an agent working for Beijing, a London tribunal ruled on Tuesday.

Lawyer Christine Lee had sued MI5 over the alert issued in January 2022 in which it alleged she was "involved in political interference activities" in the United Kingdom on behalf of China's ruling Communist Party.

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