On Thursday, the Kaohsiung branch of the High Court reduced a Chinese national’s prison sentence to 13 years from 26 years for ordering the killing of suspected pirates as the captain of a Taiwan-based vessel back in 2012.
Wang Fengyu was arrested on 22 August 2020, after Indian Star – the ship flying the flag of Seychelles docked at the Kaohsiung port. He was the captain of that ship. Kaohsiung prosecutors in 2020, around October reportedly charged Wang with contraventions of the Controlling...