张伯笠牧师评唐元隽案：判决合理，但出卖同道必须担责
丰收华夏基督教会主任牧师张伯笠11月14日在其节目中评论唐元隽案时表示，他个人认为曼哈顿联邦法院判处唐元隽缓刑三年、不用入狱的判决是合理的，但唐元隽替中国国家安全部监视同道的行为不对、必须承担责任。他说：「我不是为他辩护，我可以理解他的软弱。」
唐元隽69岁，住在纽约皇后区Flushing，2025年9月已向法院认罪，承认未向司法部长登记、充当中国代理人。检方指控他2018年至2023年间按中国国家安全部情报人员的指示，搜集并传递中国民主活动人士的身份、活动照片、视频和组织情况。检方求刑五年，法官John G. Koeltl11月12日判他缓刑三年。张伯笠说，他和唐元隽是东北老乡，也是多年的朋友和民运战友，他曾向唐元隽传福音；当年他的教会在纽约设立分堂时，唐元隽把自己的办公室借给教会使用。
张伯笠说，唐元隽当年因参加1989年运动被判20年、坐了12年牢，如今快70岁，从中方拿到的钱并不多，付出的代价已经不小。他强调，缓刑监管不是无罪释放，也不是认可唐元隽的行为；法官是按已查明的事实、法定刑罚范围和量刑因素作裁量，公众可以批评量刑过轻、讨论这类跨国镇压案件的刑事政策，但不能因为判决不符合自己的道德期待，就认定是司法不公。
他也介绍了对判决不满的声音。一位评论者说，一个被中共判过重刑、坐过12年牢的人，拿着美国的政治庇护和护照，转身替国安部盯着自己的战友整整五年，最后只判缓刑、不用坐牢，「庇护是给受迫害者的，不是给替迫害者干活的人的」。张伯笠还引述《北京之春》创办人胡平的分析：海外民运里有中共线人不是新问题，线人有打进来的，也有被胁迫利用的；胡平对唐元隽、王书军这类人有同情，认为多属无奈的投靠。
张伯笠说，思乡是每个流亡者都有的软肋，中国政府很清楚这一点。他自己的父母先后在九十多岁离世，他都没能回国奔丧，母亲临终最后一句话是「儿子，妈妈想你」。据他说，唐元隽的母亲瘫痪在床，弟弟有精神残疾，家境困难，唐元隽一心想回家看看。他说，一个人因为亲情陷入困境，值得理解，这是人的脆弱，孝敬父母也是圣经的诫命；但为了缓解自己的困境，把别人的安全和自由交给迫害他们的政府，就越过了界线，那是选择和责任的问题：可以不再搞民运，可以回家看父母，但不能出卖人。他认为，唐元隽应该向每一个被他出卖的人道歉，也应该向公众道歉。
张伯笠说，普通人撑不下去可以理解，但唐元隽是中国民主党的领袖人物，王书军是胡耀邦赵紫阳纪念基金会的秘书长，领袖的投靠伤害的是整个运动的信任。他认为，这次判决不只是对一个流亡者人格和责任的考验，也是对海外中国民主运动的政治文化、组织治理和信任结构的一次严峻考验。海外民运组织大多靠个人的道德和信任运转，他主张要建立民主制度、安全保障和监督问责；圣经对领袖的要求不是传奇经历，而是忠心、分工问责和透明。
节目中也有人批评张伯笠是「民运牧师」，没有跟民运切割。张伯笠回应说，被羞辱、被迫害的人正是基督徒要关心、要爱的人，他不会跟坚持的人切割，基督徒不做落井下石的人。他说，他愿意为唐元隽和王书军祷告，盼望他们认罪悔改；也盼海外民运的朋友不要笑话唐元隽，而是学习那些坚持到底的人。
关联：唐元隽认罪充当中国未注册代理人，曼哈顿联邦法院判缓刑三年、不必入狱
Pastor Boli Zhang on Tang Yuanjun: The Probation Sentence Is Reasonable, but Betraying Fellow Activists Demands Accountability
Boli Zhang, senior pastor of Harvest Chinese Christian Church, said on his program on November 14 that he personally considers it reasonable that a Manhattan federal court sentenced Tang Yuanjun to three years' probation with no prison time, but that Tang's work monitoring fellow activists for China's Ministry of State Security was wrong and must carry responsibility. "I am not defending him," Zhang said. "I can understand his weakness."
Tang, 69, lives in Flushing, Queens, and pleaded guilty in September 2025 to conspiring to act as an agent of China without notifying the Attorney General. Prosecutors said that from 2018 to 2023, acting on instructions from Ministry of State Security officers, he collected and passed on the identities, activity photos, videos and organizational details of Chinese pro-democracy activists. Prosecutors had sought five years in prison; Judge John G. Koeltl sentenced him to three years' probation on November 12. Zhang said he and Tang are both from northeastern China and have been friends and fellow activists for many years; he once preached the gospel to Tang, and when his church set up a New York branch, Tang lent his office to the congregation.
Zhang said Tang was sentenced to 20 years and served 12 years in prison for his part in the 1989 movement, is now nearly 70, received very little money from the Chinese side, and has already paid a heavy price. He stressed that probation is not an acquittal and does not endorse what Tang did; the judge ruled on the established facts, the statutory sentencing range and the mitigating factors. The public may criticize the sentence as too light and debate criminal policy in transnational repression cases, Zhang said, but a verdict that falls short of one's moral expectations is not thereby judicial injustice.
He also presented voices unhappy with the sentence. One commentator said that a man once heavily sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party, who served 12 years and then took American asylum and a U.S. passport, turned around and watched his own comrades for the Ministry of State Security for five years, yet received only probation and no prison: "Asylum is for the persecuted, not for those who work for the persecutors." Zhang also cited Hu Ping, founder of Beijing Spring, who wrote that informants inside the overseas democracy movement are an old problem, not a new one: some are planted agents, others are coerced or exploited, and Hu expressed sympathy for men like Tang and Wang Shujun, seeing their capitulation as largely helpless.
Zhang said homesickness is a vulnerability every exile has, and the Chinese government knows it well. His own parents both died in their nineties while he was unable to return for their funerals; his mother's last words were, "Son, Mother misses you." Tang's mother, Zhang said, is bedridden and paralyzed, his brother has a mental disability, the family is poor, and Tang longed to go home to see them. A person trapped by family love deserves understanding, Zhang said; that is human frailty, and honoring one's parents is a biblical commandment. But relieving one's own plight by handing other people's safety and freedom to the government that persecutes them crosses a line: that is a matter of choice and responsibility. A man may quit the movement, and may go home to see his parents, but he must not betray people. Tang should apologize to every person he betrayed, Zhang said, and he should apologize to the public.
Zhang said an ordinary person who cannot hold on is understandable, but Tang was a leading figure in the Chinese Democracy Party, and Wang Shujun was secretary-general of the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Foundation; when leaders defect, the trust of the whole movement is damaged. The verdict, he said, is not only a test of one exile's character and responsibility, but a severe test of the political culture, organizational governance and trust structure of the overseas Chinese democracy movement. Such organizations mostly run on personal morality and trust; Zhang argued they need democratic institutions, security safeguards, supervision and accountability, noting that the Bible asks of leaders not a legendary past but faithfulness, divided responsibilities, accountability and transparency.
Some viewers criticized Zhang as a "democracy-movement pastor" who has not cut ties with the movement. Zhang replied that the shamed and the persecuted are exactly the people Christians are called to care for and love; he will not cut ties with those who persevere, and Christians must not kick a man when he is down. He said he will pray for Tang Yuanjun and Wang Shujun, hoping they repent, and he urged friends in the overseas movement not to mock Tang but to learn from those who have held on to the end.
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