TAIPEI, Taiwan—A naturalized Taiwanese citizen of Chinese origin has been sentenced to eight years in prison for violating Taiwan’s national security law by establishing organizations in Taiwan under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Zhou Man-zhi, a Chinese national who obtained Taiwan’s citizenship in 2004 after marrying a Taiwanese man, was sentenced on Jan. 20 by the Taiwan High Court’s branch in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. The sentencing reverses a March ruling that acquitted Zhou due to insufficient evidence.
According to the ruling, Zhou was a member of the Shaanxi Patriotic Volunteer Association and the Chinese Patriotic Volunteers Association, two China-based civic organizations that the court found to be affiliated with the Chinese regime’s United Front Work Department….
Taiwan Court Sentences Chinese National to 8 Years in Prison for Engaging in CCP’s ‘United Front’ Work
