Death sentence over selling of state secrets

[Batu69]

A CHINESE man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign spy agency between 2002 and 2011, China Central Television revealed yesterday.

 

Huang Yu, 48, was paid a total of US$700,000 for the information, CCTV said. It didn’t say when sentence was passed, or if the execution had been carried out, but said Huang had been apprehended in 2011.

 

Huang was a computer technician in southwest China’s Sichuan Province who worked for a research institute which helped develop a cipher system for China’s government and military, CCTV reported.

 

Filled anger after he was sacked in 2004 for poor performance, he is said to have contacted a “foreign spy organization” on the Internet, offering to sell documents he had obtained while working for his former employer.

 

Meeting with a “foreign spy” in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, Huang handed over documents that covered secrets ranging from the ruling Communist Party to military and financial issues, CCTV said.

 

He is said to have made contact with the agent on 21 occasions.

He was given an initial US$10,000 for his cooperation and a salary of US$5,000 a month was agreed, according to CCTV. It said he also received training related to spying activities.

 

When Huang began to run out of documents, he targeted his wife and brother-in-law who also worked for government departments handling state secrets, CCTV said.

 

Eventually, his frequent travel and sudden unexplained wealth caught up with him, it added.

Huang’s wife and his brother-in-law were sentenced to five and three years, respectively, for “negligence” that caused the leak of state secrets. Also, 29 of his former colleagues were punished, CCTV reported, without elaborating.

 

Huang’s brother-in-law was the general engineer at Huang’s former workplace, and his wife worked for an similar institute. Huang had asked her to copy classified information and bring it home, and he took the chance when repairing his brother-in-law’s computer to download information from it, CCTV reported.

 

In a statement, the state safety bureau of Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital, said: “He had offered a great deal of classified information in 10 years, which caused serious threats to our core government and military departments.”

 

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[Pequi]

For every Snowden there's 20 willing to sell the secrets, and most of them probably get away with it.

As to the verdict, I'm not sure what is worse, life in prison or the death sentence. Probably the former.

Expect human-rights condemnations ....

[CODYQX4]

1 hour ago, Pequi said:

For every Snowden there's 20 willing to sell the secrets, and most of them probably get away with it.

As to the verdict, I'm not sure what is worse, life in prison or the death sentence. Probably the former.

Expect human-rights condemnations ....

As if life in a box isn't miserable enough, they'll probably throw in torture too.

 

I'd much rather take the Tank cannon to the face and get it over with.

[steven36]

2 hours ago, Pequi said:

For every Snowden there's 20 willing to sell the secrets, and most of them probably get away with it.

As to the verdict, I'm not sure what is worse, life in prison or the death sentence. Probably the former.

Expect human-rights condemnations ....

In China they arrest people just for believing in something  back one time when  superstitious people believed  that it was going to be the end of the world  they arrested like a 100 people for just believing  this and  speaking about it.   Any one willing to trade his life for state secrets  is a idiot . Even in free countries it use to be  death by firing squad or they chop you're head off . Back in the 1800s very little people committed crimes but idiots  they would hang you just for stealing a horse .  I dont think its that many people in China is willing to give up there life over spilling the beans over something that's just going make things worse. 

 

People sit over in other countries cheering for people like Snowden  and he just made things worse were there trying to make it legal  to backdoor the internet ..He just sparked there interest in something they use to keep secret .  Other countries better get busy making there own software  because every thing from windows to apps  are going to be backdoored  if the FBI gets its way and you can thank Snowden for bringing it too there attention  . If you fight the system they will just pass laws were you cant fight it. China already has a law were they backdoor software .  All Snowden done was  start the law enforcement  wanting to ban privacy  on the internet  because all these big companies  that use to rat on everyone wants to play like they care about privacy  , they suck up all you're info for profit and then cry when then cry when Law enforcement comes knocking  and before Snowden  they just handed everything over . Only reason they fight for privacy  is for profit  but its  a false sense of privacy  because Google and Microsoft has everyone's secrets anyways  . I dont trust them just like i dont trust the NSA or the FBI  with my privacy .  

[Pequi]

4 hours ago, steven36 said:

People sit over in other countries cheering for people like Snowden  and he just made things worse were there trying to make it legal  to backdoor the internet ..He just sparked there interest in something they use to keep secret .

Snowden just made us aware that the government had torn up his country's constitution, and was spying on citizens without proper court orders. Spying on mostly innocent people (example mass metadata gathering, revelation that agents were tracking their spouses, etc)

I don't think he is in any way responsible for the actual spying, or that he revealed anything damaging to national security, he just told the people what was going on and gave them a chance to fight for their rights.

Unfortunately, they didn't. They "sheepled".

[steven36]

42 minutes ago, Pequi said:

Snowden just made us aware that the government had torn up his country's constitution, and was spying on citizens without proper court orders. Spying on mostly innocent people (example mass metadata gathering, revelation that agents were tracking their spouses, etc)

I don't think he is in any way responsible for the actual spying, or that he revealed anything damaging to national security, he just told the people what was going on and gave them a chance to fight for their rights.

Unfortunately, they didn't. They "sheepled".

If you wasn't aware of what was going on before Snowden was because you were like the rest of the world asleep . he was the 6th one to do this people have been doing it since 1971

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_whistleblowers

 

After awhile  people forget about it , but what they do never changes what the NSA  does,  the NSA  had many names before it was called NSA  its existed in some  forum  for almost 100 years since world war 1 .

 

People just love the drama is all its  nothing new that's not been told a 1000 times before Snowden . And  it was Snowden's country as in the past tense,  he gave it up for a  short time in the spot light  . Even if  did come back and pull his time if he ever got out  alive , he would still be a felon and would never be able to vote or have a gun . He ruin his whole life,  now hes  hiding out in Russia tell they get tired of harboring him and  kick him out . He had  a good life and done something  that ruined it that will not change a 100 year old  Government  ran organization.