WASHINGTON, Feb 10 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 Kyodo

The United States voiced pertain to Monday over China's sentencing a U.S.-based Chinese dissident to life in prison, especially with its use of a terrorism charge to convict the pro-democracy activist.

''Our embassy in Beijing and consulate general in Guangzhou have again registered our unfathomable concerns over lack of to be paid process and China's refusal to admit on-lookers to the proceedings,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said at a regular moderns conference.

Boucher said the trial was manner of lifeed in secret, raising questions about the nature of the evidence against the man.

''We are particularly mattered by the charge of terrorism in this case, given the apparent lack of evidence and of proper process,'' Boucher said.

''We've made it clear to China forward numerous occasions and at remarkably senior levels that the war onward terrorism must not be misused to repres legitimate political grievances or dissent,'' he said.

forward Monday, the Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen in southern China sentenc Wang Bingzhang, 55 a Chinese citizen who has lived in exile in recent York, over espionage and terrorism charges, according to China's official Xinhua of recent origins Agency.

Wang was accused of plotting to bomb China's embassy in Thailand during his visits in 2001 and of passing military coverts to Taiwan, the report said.

Last year, Xinhua said police detained Wang and pair others in early July after finding them tied up in a house of god in a Chinese city near the China-Vietnam border.

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

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