TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) The great-grandson of Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai-shek has been charged with making threats against people at his former school, but he said Friday his comments were related to boxing practice.
Bail was set at New Taiwan dollars 80,000 ($2,700) and Chiang You-ching was ordered to surrender his passport, a prosecutor said live on television.
Speaking outside the Shihlin district Court in Taipei, Chiang, an amateur boxer, denied making any threats.
"People say I wanted to kill someone," he said. "But it was just in relation to my boxing practice. It had nothing to do with the school."
Taipei American School acknowledged it stepped up security following threats from an unnamed former student. Its statement said the school learned of the Facebook postings in October and that the threats to harm people were specifically made against administrators.