(Washington Comprehensive News) His accused of intimidating a student who supported Chinese democratic posters, and threatened to report her Chinese students in the United States in the Chinese law enforcement department.guilty.
Comprehensive Reuters and Voice of the United States reported that 25 -year -old Wu Xiaolei was charged with "crime of network tracking and entanglement" and "crime of cross -state communication threat communication".The court was tried.After the four -day trial, 12 members of the federal jury ruled that both of them were established.
According to the court documents, Wu Xiaolei saw Zooey, who was also studying at the Berkeley Conservatory of Music in 2022, and posted a photo of Chinese democratic leaflets on Instagram.Hands, and reported her behavior to the Chinese government, and announced the other party's email address to encourage others to harass it.
Zoy is from China and has the right to permanent residency in the United States, but her family is still in China. The leaflets she posted in the college read "We want freedom", "we want democracy" and "station with the Chinese People's Station"Together" and so on.
Wu Xiaolei was arrested in December 2022, and he did not plead guilty of the two charges.During the trial, the prosecutor said that Wu Xiaolei made a serious threat because the Chinese government did not allow this speech expression and vigorously suppressed the objection to the Chinese government.
Wu Xiaolei's lawyer argued that Wu Xiaolei's remarks were "the immature online quarrel between two familiar young people" and emphasized the freedom of protection of the United States, including the harshly spoken by young people when they were excited and angry.And annoying words.
When the two parties concluded their words, the defense proposed that the jury should be noted that this is not a trial of Chinese political policies. It is a young student who accepts trials.EssenceThe prosecutor said that even if the defendant did not actually take violence, his intention to threaten others was enough to be the basis for being convicted.
The judge will be sentenced to sentencing on April 24 this year.According to U.S. law, two charges of Wu Xiaolei are sentenced to up to five years in prison, released under regulatory three years, and a fine of up to $ 250,000 (335,000 yuan).