ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Harry Wu had been one of China's most vocal critics, and had, himself, served many, many years in China's prison system, and became an American citizen after he left China in 1985. During that time, he snuck into China, video camera hidden, and got back into the prison system. After a number of successful visits, he tried it again in 1995, crossed the border, and they were waiting for him, and they threw him into detention.</s>KOPPEL (voice-over): Harry Wu was found guilty of spying on Wednesday by a Chinese court in the city of Wu-han. The court immediately sentenced Wu to 15 years in prison. And, in a move that seems designed to potentially appease the U.S. government, the court added that Wu would also be expelled from China, as punishment for his crimes.</s>KOPPEL: Because Harry Wu is a Chinese American, that automatically put him in an exclusive category of somebody who would be treated better than most, but it didn't hurt that the Fourth Women's Conference was going to be coming up in a matter of months in China, and the Chinese very much wanted to have Hillary Clinton attend this conference. And that was something that the White House was not going to allow if Harry Wu remained in prison.
CNN 20: Harry Wu's Expulsion from China, August 24, 1995