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Wang Bingzhang was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprival of political right for life after convicted of espionage, organizing and leading a terrorist group.
The Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen announced this verdict in Shenzhen Monday 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 1982 and then sent spies into New York to direct Wang on espionage activities and 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 of people to contact. He obtained secret military material illegally from Liang 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 company named "Guanzhong."
Beginning from 1996, according to the court, Wang started writing, publishing books, listing articles on websites to air terrorism and agitate terrorist activities such as assassination, kidnapping and bombing. 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, Feng Guanhui and Ni Jinbin to spread terrorism and ordered them to obtain guns for kidnapping. In the same year Wang appointed Zhang Lin as leader of "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 center of the headquarters" and ordered Xie to implement explosion, to implement gun-shots and assassination on the National 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 capital support 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 north parts of Thailand to prepare for building a terrorist training base there.
Wang has the right to appeal in 10 days after the verdict of the court, according to China's Criminal Procedural Law.
(Xinhua News Agency February 10, 2003)
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