Chinese music student faces US trial for alleged threats to activist
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!
its a little early to be that stoned dude, maybe don't wake and bake
By age eight, he had acquired "the superb great law with supernatural powers," which was supposed to include invisibility, levitation, etc. Li Hongzhi
I was just being a jackass, sorry. Thanks for the link wozers!
Not at all, we're all just being jackassed :).
Here's a fun video essay on the craziness that is Falun gong and the Epoch Times if you want to go further down the rabbit hole: https://youtu.be/ncr62WQnIHA?si=XsIoYofM9wJK7Pwk
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.