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Chinese has said that a former government employee — identified by the surname Zhang, once "a core confidential personnel of a state agency" — has been sentenced to death for leaking "a large number of top secret and classified state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies.”

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Reuters

In a WeChat post, the Chinese Ministry of State Security Wednesday said Zhang had access to "a large number of state secrets," which he leaked using a USB drive. The ministry dubbed the former state employee "weak in character" and unable to "resist the temptation of money."

The ministry also said that foreign agencies, which it did not identify, had recruited Zhang after he had left his official position. In September, it had reportedly warned students with access to sensitive information of “handsome men” or “beautiful women” trying to lure them.

Zhang was allegedly lured abroad and forced into signing a document by a foreign spy surnamed Li who seized his flash drive. His colleague, surnamed Zhu, reportedly received a six-year prison term for aiding Zhang. China tightened its state secrets laws earlier this year.

Al Jazeera

In October, a Chinese court upheld the death sentence for a woman for trafficking children in the 1990s. In June, Beijing threatened “diehard” Taiwan separatists with capital punishment. In April, a documentary exposed a scientist's execution eight years ago over espionage.

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Guardian

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Eurasian Times

Together with the widened state secret law, China's threat of death sentence to Taiwanese activists potentially targets 100K individuals. While the Supreme People's Court in March assured limited scope for capital punishment, death penalty numbers themselves are a state secret.

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