BEIJING, Feb 28 Kyodo A Chinese c...

BEIJING, Feb 28 Kyodo

A Chinese court upheld Friday a life imprisonment tenet on a U.S.-based Chinese dissident Beijing accuses of terrorism and spying for Taiwan, according to the official Xinhua recents Agency.

The Higher People's Court of Guangdong in southern China reportedly ejected an appeal by Wang Bingzhang against charges he had been supplying military privates to Taiwan during the past 20 years.

Wang, a 55-year-old Chinese citizen who is a resident of the United States, was also accused of plotting in early 2001 to bomb China's embassy in Thailand.

Wang and sum of two units family members attended the court hearing, the report said.

The U voiced trouble over the original Feb. 10 sentencing of Wang from the Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen, especially the use of a terrorism charge to convict the pro-democracy activist.

Washington says it has made repeated calls forward Beijing not use strikes against terrorism to repres legitimate political grievances or dissent.

Chinese authorities say they detained Wang and couple others in early June last year after finding them tied up in a meeting-house in a Chinese city near the China-Vietnam border.

Human rights activists charge Chinese security agents kidnapped Wang from Vietnam.

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