China convicts Taiwanese `spy'

[dArKeR]

AP , Beijing
Friday, Jul 16, 2004,Page 4

China sentenced a Taiwanese man yesterday to four years in prison on charges that he spied on China's military for Taiwan.

Sung Hsiao-lian (???) was convicted by a court on Hainan island of receiving money from Taiwan's military spy agency and providing information on unspecified "military conditions," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Sung was among seven Taiwanese detained late last year and charged in January with spying. China says all seven confessed, but it has released few details of their cases. The status of the other cases wasn't announced yesterday.

China has announced arrests over the past two years of several groups of Taiwanese and Chinese nationals on spying charges.

China said last December that it detained 24 Taiwanese and 19 Chinese on spying charges and that all had confessed. It wasn't clear whether Sung and the Taiwanese charged with him were part of that group.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/07/16/2003179167

Why not? Sounds just like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Abu Gharib!!! 

[rachmak]

1. Nothing wrong with detaining a spy. Us Americans do it all the time