Taiwan detains scribe for bribing officers to leak details

A journalist in Taiwan was detained on allegations of bribing army officers to provide military information to people from mainland China, as the self-ruled island cracks down on potential infiltration from Beijing.

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Taiwan's Qiaotou District Prosecutors Office said in a statement that a district court ordered the detention of a television reporter and five current and retired military officers. Saturday's statement didn’t identify the journalist, only using the surname Lin.

Meanwhile, CTi TV separately said one of its reporters, Lin Chen-you, has been detained and that it wasn’t aware of the case details, urging a fair judicial process.