An appellate court docket sentenced two Taiwanese nationals to suspended jail phrases Monday for illegally filming U.S. army plane throughout an air present in Might.
The Suwon District Courtroom upheld a decrease court docket ruling of 1 1/2 years in jail, suspended by three years, for the 2 suspects, every of their 40s and 60s.
“The photographs taken by the defendants have been all confiscated, making it unlikely they are going to be leaked externally,” the bench mentioned in its ruling. “Since their apprehension in Might, they’ve been held in custody for a while … possible giving them enough time to mirror on their wrongdoing.”
The Taiwanese nationals have been indicted on prices of attending an air present at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, on Might 10, with out authorization, and illegally taking round a dozen photographs of U.S. army plane and services.
The U.S. army had banned residents of sure nations, together with China and Taiwan, from attending the present.
