The photographer was sentenced to 14 years in prison for leaking photos of warships in the military port and released.
Crimes against national security refer to actions that endanger national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, splitting the country, subverting the political rights of the people's democratic dictatorship, and overthrowing the socialist system. Endangering national security is a general crime, which is a summary of the common characteristics of various criminal acts that endanger national security.
Illegal provision of state secrets refers to the act of illegally providing state secrets to foreign institutions, organizations and personnel. Objectively manifested as the illegal transfer of state secrets to foreign institutions, organizations and personnel through oral or written form. State secrets refer to the secrets of national defense, diplomacy, political law, finance, culture, education, science and technology, etc., as well as other keywords, statistical data. Foreign institutions, organizations and persons refers to foreign institutions, organizations and persons in Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.
On April 16, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued a typical case of endangering national security punished in accordance with the law. One of them was that the photographer met foreign people through WeChat chat and provided 384 photos involving military and port warships, for a total of 383 photos.
Before the incident, Huang Moumou was a wedding photographer. In July 2018, defendant Huang Moumou became acquainted with overseas personnel "Sister Qi" through WeChat chat. Under the instructions of "Sister Qi", Huang took advantage of the convenience of engaging in wedding photography on the beach near a military port from July 2019 to May 2020, and used professional photographic equipment and mobile phones to take long-range photographs moored near the military port. In order to avoid exposing himself, Huang XX also deceived and induced others to take photos of him to commemorate the panoramic view of the bay near the military port. Based on the frequency of 2 to 3 times a week, Mr. Huang took more than 90 photos, including 384 photos of jungang warships. Huang Moumou sent the photos taken to overseas personnel "Qi Jie" through network sharing and group sharing, and received a total of more than 40,000 yuan in remuneration provided by the other party.
After identification, the photos involved in the case involved 3 top secrets and 2 secret level secrets. In the end, Huang Moumou was sentenced to 14 years in prison, deprived of political rights for five years, and confiscated personal property of 40,000 yuan for suspected of secretly visiting overseas and illegally providing state secrets.