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Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in English 0342 gmt 10 Feb 03/BBC
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Monday, February 10, 2003

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Shenzhen, 10 February: Wang Bingzhang was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprival of political right for life after convicted ofespionage, organizing and leading a terrorist group.

The Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen announced this verdict here Monday [10 February] at the first instance trial.

According to the verdict, the intelligence agents in Taiwan contacted Wang Bingzhang and discussed with him on secret cooperation in late 1982and then sent spies into New York to direct Wang on espionage activitiesand supply him with funds in the first half of 1983.

Wang had been collecting and providing intelligence of the mainland for Taiwan from 1982 to 1990, involving military secrets and lists ofpeople to contact. He obtained secret military material illegally fromLiang Chaotian in the first half of 1987.

Wang began to report his work to Taiwan's military intelligence system after 1989 and asked for fund and direction under the cover of a companynamed "Guanzhong".

Beginning from 1996, according to the court, Wang started writing, publishing books, listing articles on web sites to air terrorism andagitate terrorist activities such as assassination, kidnapping andbombing. He was also developing terrorists abroad in the same period.

In the January of 1998, Wang enter Zhuhai through illegal channel to meet with people in Guangzhou and Zhanghai, including Fan Yiping, FengGuanhui and Ni Jinbin to spread terrorism and ordered them to obtainguns for kidnapping. In the same year Wang appointed Zhang Lin as leaderof "action group" and sent him back to China to wait for action.

In the February of 1999, Wang appointed Xie Hong as commander-in-chief of the "special action centre of the headquarters" and ordered Xie toimplement explosion, to implement gun-shots and assassination on theNational Day celebration ceremony in 1999.

In the March of 2001, he wrote to the Taiwan authorities, claiming he had stored large quantity of dynamite on the mainland and needed capitalsupport for blasting roads and bridges.

From February to July in 2001, Wang had been to Thailand twice in a plot to bomb Chinese embassy in Thailand. He even examined the northparts of Thailand to prepare for building a terrorist training basethere.

Wang has the right to appeal in 10 days after the verdict of the court, according to China's Criminal Procedural Law.

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