On September 9, local time in the United States, Hu Andaming, a Chinese professor of the University of Tennesville, who was reviewed for the spy case, won a historic victory in the US court. The judge was convicted of Hu Antian and all his allegations were not established.
In a 52 -page ruling issued on the 9th, Thomas Varlan, judge of the United States District Court, announced that Hu Antumin was not guilty, saying that the rules of college management research awards were confusing.Aerospace Bureau.
The case was included in the Chinese Ministry of Justice in the Chinese Action Plan (Quot; China Initiativequot;), which claims to crack down on economic espionage and has launched a large -scale survey for Asian scientists, researchers and scholars.However, the government's allegations against Hu Anti did not involve economic espionage and no evidence of spy activity.
The judgment made Professor Hu Anting's case the first trial and the first case to be sentenced to innocence.
According to the Wall Street Journal, on June 17, because the jury was stalemate on whether Hu Antian had concealed his work in order to obtain research funds for the US government, a federal judge announced that the trial of the case was invalid.Prosecutors accused that when filling in the Conflict Form of the University of Tennessee, and when applying for NASA funds, Hu Anming did not report his work in China and misleaded his university and the US government.
Hu Anming confirmed in the trial that he believed that his position in China was a summer work, but he only spent a few weeks of part -time jobs every year. He did not apply to the principle of interest conflict in American schools, so he did not need to be disclosed.
The US Federal Government's plan to implement the Chinese Action Plan about three years ago intends to prevent the actions of transfering commercial secrets and other proprietary information to China, and the lawsuit against Hu Antian is part of it.One of the focus of this operation is those researchers who accept the US government's funding and carry out work or exchanges in China. The US government said that these research work may intentionally or unintentionally involve the transfer of cutting -edge proprietary technologies.
However, in the past two years, the federal prosecutors have obviously upgraded these actions and further expanded the allegations. Many charged scholars and experts insisted that they were innocent and believed that they were prosecuted as victims of the US government's hostile environment for China.Essence
After learning about the verdict, a spokesman for the US Department of Justice said: Respect the court's decision, although we are disappointed with the results.
Those who are familiar with the case stated that the Ministry of Justice's allegations of Hu Anding not only broke his career, but after being sued in February 2020, Hu Andama lost his work at the University of Tennessee, and also caused his life to his family and his family's life.Great damage.Since he was placed under house arrest, his health has further deteriorated, but despite this, he is still struggling with this unfair treatment.
I admire him very much, because if he lost this lawsuit, he will sit very long.He was full of confidence in himself, and felt that he had not done such a thing before he insisted on fighting the lawsuit to the end.The final result also proves that the US judicial system is still fair.Feng Daqian, former vice president of the University of Dallas Dallas, told Peng Mei News.
As the judge made this ruling, the US Department of Justice is facing more and more criticisms from representing Asian Americans and some Democrats of the Congress. When the Ministry of Justice is accusing the Ministry of Justice in investigating the allegations of fraud in the US funding project,Unexpectedly target Chinese scholars.
Today, the Federal Court's judgment has made Professor Hu Anming's hard -won innocence.
