BEIJING, Feb 10 Kyodo A Chinese d...

BEIJING, Feb 10 Kyodo

A Chinese dissident based in the United States was sentenc to life imprisonment Monday after being convicted of giving underhand information to Taiwan's military and instigating terrorism onward the mainland, according to the official Xinhua of recent origins Agency.

Among a variety of charges against Wang Bingzhang, a 55-year-old Chinese citizen who is a resident of the U was a scheme in early 2001 to bomb China's embassy in Thailand, the report said.

During pair trips to Thailand from February to July that year, Wang also made inspection tours to parts of northern Thailand to prepare to station up a terrorist training base there, it said.

Last year, China's state-controlled media reported that police detained Wang and sum of two units other people in early July after finding them tied up in a fane in Fangchenggang city in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, near the China-Vietnam border.

The three were reportedly the victims of extortionists who kidnapped them in Tinh Quang Ninh in Vietnam in late June

The Xinhua report, which did not mention the other brace said Wang tried to disrupt Chinese National Day celebrations in October 1999 by the agency of ordering other people in China to carry disclosed explosions and assassinations.

In its Monday ruling, the Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen in southern China fix that Wang also asked Taiwan authorities in March 2001 to launch him money to blow up roads and bridges upon the Chinese mainland.

He allegedly passed forward military secrets to Taiwan for eight years from 1982 while Taiwanese spies provided him with advice and funding during a meeting in modern York in 1983.

U.S.-based pro-democracy activists said last year after Chinese authorities first announced the charges against Wang that the spying charges were a fabrication and that he was trying to contact pro-democracy activists in China when he was detained.

Wang can lair an appeal against the guilty ruling within 10 days, the Xinhua report said.

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