Bomb hoaxer was venting anger at police
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A 27-YEAR-OLD man who made bomb hoax calls affecting flights in six Chinese cities in May was sentenced to five years in jail by a court in the southern city of Shenzhen yesterday.
Wang Hongliang was jailed for fabricating terror information, ruled the People’s Court of Bao’an District in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.
Wang made six bomb threat calls on May 15, causing diversions, emergency landings or delays of 27 flights in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Lanzhou, Xi’an, Nanjing and Urumqi.
He said he was venting his anger at police who he accused of harassing him.
Wang was detained on May 16 in a hostel in Changping Town in the city of Dongguan, also in Guangdong.
The court said the bomb threats had affected flights, triggered emergency responses at airports and had severely disturbed social order.
Shenzhen Airlines and Shanghai Juneyao Airlines put losses caused by the hoaxes at 397,071 yuan (US$65,082).
Under Chinese law, anyone who intentionally disrupt flights by fabricating threats can receive punishments ranging from detention to a jail term of up to five years — or more than five years for those whose actions have severe consequences.
Wang said in court that he would not appeal the verdict.
China has witnessed a rising number of bomb hoaxes affecting flights in recent years. As of September this year, more than 80 cases of spreading terrorism information by calling airports or airlines had been reported, according to Supreme Court statistics.
In September, the Supreme People’s Court issued an interpretation to clarify which laws should be applied in such cases of fabricating and spreading false terrorism information.
Wang is the first person to be convicted since.
He said in court that he fabricated the bomb threats to vent his anger toward the police and the government.
Wang was sentenced to two years in prison in 2003 for robbery and was jailed for three years in 2006 for extortion, said the court.
After his release from the prison, Wang said he had been “harassed” by the police, checking his identity.
On the day before he made the hoax calls, Wang was taken by police from an Internet cafe, “which made me decide to do something to make the government pay,” he said.
But after making the calls, Wang said he felt remorseful
“I didn’t know that I would cause such chaos,” he said.
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