US-based dissident sentenced to life for spying in ChinaAgence France-PresseFOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY 2/10/03 Agence Fr.-Presse (Pg. Unavail. Online) 2003 WL 2721457
Agence France-Presse Monday, February 10, 2003 BEIJING, Feb 10 (AFP) - US-based Chinese democracy activist Wang Bingzhang was Monday sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of espionage and leading a terrorist group, state press said. The sentence was handed down in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, the Xinhua news agency reported. China in December said it had arrested Wang, 55, for espionage and engaging in "violent terrorist activities", claiming he had been in contact with Taiwan's espionage organizations since the early 1980s and was paid by them for collecting "state secrets." Friends said he was kidnapped in June from Vietnam near the China border, where he tried to meet Chinese labor activists, and was brought into the country. mp/nj
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