【英语国际】英国取消俄美女间谍的英国国籍

The U.K. government has revoked the British citizenship of Anna Chapman, one of the best known of the Russian spy suspects recently arrested in New York.

Ms. Chapman was one of 11 people who were charged by prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office last month with being agents of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency. She was also among the 10 of those people who entered plea deals last Thursday as part of a diplomatic agreement to swap them for four people held by Russia, most on charges of spying for Western intelligence agencies.

Ms. Chapman had married a British man while living in the U.K. for several years. As the spy saga unfolded, she received much publicity when photos of her, including some in which she was partially undressed, appeared in U.K. newspapers. After last week's spy swap, there was speculation she would try to return to the U.K.

However, the U.K.'s Home Secretary signed an order Tuesday to remove Ms. Chapman's British citizenship, with immediate effect, according to the U.K. Home Office.

'The Home Secretary has the right to deprive dual nationals of their British citizenship and, once deprived, to exclude them from the UK. where [the Home Secretary] considers that to do so would be conducive to the public good,' a Home Office spokesman said.

It is now considered likely that the Home Office will follow through with such a move, meaning Ms. Chapman would be unable to obtain a visa.

Ms. Chapman spent several years in the U.K. after marrying British-born Alex Chapman in 2002. After the pair split in 2005, Ms. Chapman continued to live and work in London for a couple of years before returning to Moscow and ultimately moving to New York.

英国政府取消了安娜•查普曼(Anna Chapman)的英国国籍。查普曼是最近在纽约被逮捕的俄罗斯间谍嫌疑人中最知名的之一。

上个月，查普曼等11人被曼哈顿联邦检察官办公室起诉，罪名是担任俄罗斯SVR外国情报机构特工。上周四，她还与其中的九人成为一项外交协议的一部分：用他们10人交换被俄罗斯扣押的四名间谍。被俄罗斯扣押的四人大部分被控为西方情报机构从事间谍活动。

查普曼在英国生活期间，曾与一名英国男子结婚数年。随着间谍案的披露，她被大量曝光，她的照片──其中有些半裸的照片──被刊登在英国的报纸上。在上周间谍互换之后，有人猜测她将试图返回英国。

不过，据英国内政部说，英国内政大臣周二签署了一项命令，取消了查普曼的英国国籍，命令将立即生效。

内政部发言人说，内政大臣有权剥夺具有双重国籍的人士的英国国籍，以及在他们国籍被剥夺后，将其驱逐出英国，如果内政大臣认为这样做将有利于公众的利益。

现在，外界认为内政部很可能会执行这一命令，意味着查普曼将无法获得签证。

2002年，查普曼与生于英国的亚历克斯•查普曼(Alex Chapman)结婚后，曾在英国生活过几年。2005年两人离婚后，她继续在伦敦生活工作了几年，之后返回莫斯科，最后移居纽约。