China Jails Taiwanese Person on Separatism Charge for First Time
- Political activist from Taiwan sent to prison for nine years
- Taipei says the episode amounts to intimidation by China
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China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across the strait.
Yang Chih-yuan received the term in a court in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said in a briefing on Thursday, according to the semi-official Central News Agency.