Couple first foreigners to be charged under new personal information law

Prosecutors indicted a foreign couple on Sunday on allegations of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' personal information, the first foreigners charged for gathering personal information after it became a criminal offense in 2009.

British citizen Peter William Humphrey, 58, and his wife, Yu Yingzeng, 61, a US citizen, were arrested in Shanghai last July while investigating people believed to be informing authorities about allegations of commercial bribery at Glaxo-SmithKline.