Chinese music student faces US trial for alleged threats to activist
Chinese music student faces US trial for alleged threats to activist
A Chinese music student went on trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he harassed an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting democracy in China and threatened to report her activities to Chinese law enforcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alathea Porter told a fe...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Chinese music student went on trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he harassed an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting democracy in China and threatened to report her activities to Chinese law enforcement.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alathea Porter told a federal jury in Boston that Xiaolei Wu, 25, scared the activist, referred to only as Zooey in court, by making threats online to chop off her hands and report her to the Chinese government because of her "reactionary posters."
"She was afraid for herself, and she was afraid for her family, who was back in China," Porter said in her opening statement to a 12-person jury.
The trial comes as U.S. and Western authorities continue to warn that China's government has increasingly exerted pressure to silence its critics abroad.
And he'll never realize the irony of how lucky he is that he's going through the Western justice system instead of China's.
yeah ours is bad as fuck but....parts of you get sold over there. Didn't most of that bodies exhibit turn out to be Chinese prisoners?
There's enough provable atrocities being committed by the Chinese govt to worry about the conspiracy theories as well. Especially when a lot of the body and organ harvest theories are spread by a California mansion dwelling homophobic cult leader who can totally levitate he just doesn't have to prove it to you!
Parts of people have always been sold for research and it's no different than any other reagent. Some people even turned this into a successful business by the turn of the 50s by selling and patenting their tissues with remarkable abilities like immunity to polio. This wouldn't surprise anyone in the medical sciences.
Ah Chinese are aware of the dangers of being invited for tea. They’d probably be in trouble if they didn’t harass this person.
I’m usually much more merciful, but this guy pisses me off. He threatened to cripple a woman for life, and ruin the lives of her family members. I don’t care if the argument was “immature” and the guy is “misguided”. Those were major threats, and the fear he created is very real.
Being a hardcore nationalist is not a defense. Send this wannabe CCP agent back to the country he loves so much.
Nationalism is poison, no matter the nation.
AFTER some time in US jail.
Yup, same. He probably won't get punished at home per se, but we certainly don't need to endorse him with our prestigious education system.
This was a genuinely bad action which deserves real consequences.
Stupid kid is ruining his life for a government that doesn't care about him. And might be responsible for a family being hurt.
Inb4 the token "Westerners are so brainwashed with propaganda" guy who shows up in every other thread about China or Russia
bruh one of the tankies really argued that chinese authority is the only path for earth.
Reminds me of "manditory conformity for the sake of unity" Texas seems to be supporting.
So if they get convicted do they just get sent back? That feels like the easy fix.
I dunno. I think it might depend on if he gets a sentence of more than probation. He may have to serve time first then get deported.
They would be deported once their sentence completes.
Why would that happen?
+1000 social credit
"He came here to learn guitar, not to shill for the Chinese Communist Party," he said.
Actually I think he came to do both.
Reading the heading, I wasn't sure if it was a Chinese music student, or a Chinese-music student