(13 Mar 2025)
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Taipei – 13 March 2025
1. Various of Lieutenant General Shen Shih-wei at Taiwan’s defense ministry news conference
2. Various of journalist asking a question
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lieutenant General Shen Shih-wei, Chief of Department of Legal Affairs:
“Active-duty military personnel involved in issues jeopardizing national security are also subjects of future court-martial reforms. No matter it be directly or indirectly benefitting the enemy, or even leaking secrets, they will be violating the ‘offenses against the allegiance to the nation’ in the second part of the special provision.”
4. Wide of Shen listening to a journalist’s questions
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lieutenant General Shen Shih-wei, Chief of Department of Legal Affairs:
“For the active-duty military personnel who infringe the second part of the special provision of the Criminal Code of the Armed Forces, but (if) their accomplices happen to be non-military personnel or retired military personnel etc, they will not be subjects of court-martial sanctions.”
6. Mid of journalist asking a question
7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lieutenant General Shen Shih-wei, Chief of Department of Legal Affairs:
“How to decrease the number of crimes that should not have happened? We will have to profusely advertise the concepts in a positive way in the education and the actual operations of the troops in order to prevent it (to prevent possible crimes, such as spying for China, to happen).”
8. Various of journalists speaking with Shen after the news conference
STORYLINE:
Taiwan’s head of the Department of Legal Affairs said Thursday that reforms to the country’s armed forces law will strengthen education to prevent active-duty personnel from leaking secrets.
"No matter it be directly or indirectly benefitting the enemy, or even leaking secrets, they will be violating the ‘offenses against the allegiance to the nation’,” Lieutenant General Shen Shih-wei said during a news conference in Taipei.
However, he added that accomplices who are civilians or retired military personnels are not subjects to sanctions from the Criminal Code of the Armed Forces.
Shen said that the defense ministry will have to "profusely advertise" the concepts of the reforms in a "positive way" to prevent future possible crimes, such as leaking military intelligence to China.
AP video by Taijing Wu
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