Joint probe: A May 2013 photo taken at a dock in Manila showing Taiwanese experts and National Bureau of Investigation personnel investigating on the patrol boat involved in the fatal shooting of Hoh. — AFP
MANILA: A Philippine court has found eight Filipino coast guard personnel guilty of conspiring to shoot and kill a Taiwanese fisherman in a 2013 incident at sea that strained ties between the neighboring nations.
Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Eduardo Ramon Reyes said in a decision that the coast guard men failed to prove that their action of opening fire on the Taiwanese boat that killed Hong Shi Cheng on May 9,2013, off the northern Philippines was legally justified.
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