BEIJING, Apr. 16 -- On July 7, 2020, when Nie, a 30-year-old employee of a hydraulic company, strolled along a wharf in east China’s Zhejiang Province, a certain military base caught his eyes. Out of curiosity, Nie trespassed through the barbed wire fence into the forbidden military zone.
北京，4月16日 -- 2020年7月7日，30岁的某液压公司员工聂某沿码头散步时，途径解放军某部队驻军区域。被好奇心驱使，聂某无视门口的“军事禁区”警告牌，穿越铁丝网进入该区域。
Nie lingered in the forbidden militaryzone for nearly two hours, taking 40 pictures of military installations such as warships, military docks, barracks, training equipment, etc. He was later discovered by the military personnel on duty and handed over to local public security organ. These pictures were identified to have involved two confidential military secrets.
聂某在军事禁区内逗留近两个小时，对军舰、军用码头、营区营房、训练器材等多处军事设施拍摄了40张照片，后被部队执勤人员发现并移交公安机关。经鉴定，这些照片中涉及2项秘密级军事秘密。
Nie confessed to the crime on the court, saying that he only stored the pictures in his mobile phone and was not instigated by anyone or had any other illegal purposes. He was convicted of illegally obtaining state secrets and sentenced to six months in imprisonment along with one-year probation, with his mobile phone confiscated.
浙江玉环市法院负责审理此案。庭审时，聂某对自己的行为供认不讳，表示只是将照片存储在手机中，并未受人指使或有其他非法目的。经审判，聂某犯非法获取国家秘密罪，被判处有期徒刑六个月，缓刑一年，作案工具手机被没收。
According to Article 15 of the Military Facilities Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) , personnel, vehicles, and ships not affiliated to the management units of forbidden military areas both on land and in water are prohibited from entering; the photography, video and audio recording, surveying, measuring, depiction and transcribing are also prohibited in forbidden military areas; and aircraft are prohibited from flying at low altitudes over forbidden military areas.
《军事设施保护法》第十五条规定，禁止陆地、水域军事禁区管理单位以外的人员、车辆、船舶进入军事禁区，禁止对军事禁区进行摄影、摄像、录音、勘察、测量、描绘和记述，禁止航空器在军事禁区上空进行低空飞行。
