Couple Held in China Are Free, but ‘Even Now We Live Under a Cloud’

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/world/canada/canadian-couple-china-detention.html?_r=0

The couple’s account provides a rare glimpse into the workings of China’s opaque state security system. Their interrogations may also reveal clues about the vast reach of China’s global espionage network and the lengths to which the Chinese government will go to protect it. During the couple’s monthslong detention, for example, they said, they were frequently threatened with execution or told that they would be sent to a North Korean gulag.