Two airplane hijackers were repatriated back to the Chinese
mainland from Taiwan on Tuesday.
Yang Mingde and Lin Wenqiang, who hijacked a passenger plane
together from the mainland to Taiwan in 1993, were handed over to
authorities at 11:40 AM on Tuesday on Mazu Island, off the east
coast of Fujian Province. Officers from Shandong Provincial Public
Security Bureau took them into custody.
The two hijackers arrived by ship to Fuzhou, the capital of
Fujian, at around 1 PM under police escort. They would fly to
Shandong later.
No further details are available to date from the Taiwan Affairs
Office of the State Council.
The repatriation was made in accordance with the Jinmen
Agreement, signed in 1990 between Red Cross organizations on both
sides of the Taiwan Straight. The agreement covers suspect and
criminal repatriation procedures.
(Xinhua News Agency August 14, 2007)