A former Berklee College of Music student from China was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country, authorities said.
The leaflet that was posted on the campus in Boston on Oct. 22 read, “Stand with Chinese People,” along with other statements such as “We Want Freedom” and “We Want Democracy,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said.
In response, Xiaolei Wu, 26, threatened to chop off the person’s hands, reported their family to China’s public security agency, asked others to find out where the person was living and publicly posted their email address, prosecutors said.
“Mr. Wu’s criminal conduct is very serious. He harnessed the fear of potential retribution from the PRC government to harass and threaten an innocent individual who had posted an innocuous, pro-democracy flier on the Berklee campus,” acting U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy said in a statement. “Mr. Wu’s violent threats achieved his goal of instilling fear in his effort to silence this brave victim and others who might want to speak out against the PRC government.”
In response, Xiaolei Wu, 26, threatened to chop off the person’s hands, reported their family to China’s public security agency, asked others to find out where the person was living and publicly posted their email address, prosecutors said.
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The person who posted the flyer is a U.S. permanent resident originally from China who has family members still living there, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
So that person’s family members were granted asylum, right?
Right?
It’s sad that this will have no impact on the china simps.
It sucks even more that the victim was terrorized and that it’s entirely likely that their family will actually be retaliated against.
In response, Xiaolei Wu, 26, threatened to chop off the person’s hands, reported their family to China’s public security agency, asked others to find out where the person was living and publicly posted their email address, prosecutors said.
Yeah, harassing 🙄🙄
Bunch of hypocrites… they come to the west and enjoy the freedom and benefits of a free country and then still support the the ditactorial and oppressing chinese regime…
This guy didn’t come to West for freedom, he come to be educated by, and live in, the current global hegemonic power. By itself that is valuable experience, but it also carries significant social and political currency to the individual when they move back to China.
lol what was in the flier to set this psychopath off?
The words freedom and democracy… scaaaary
For Super Earth.
Chinese anti-democracy sentiment engrained in its people
Come on, do you really believe that? Dude was living in America, if democracy was the sleeper activation phrase that causes him to threaten to cut off a woman’s hands, it would have happened years ago.
A Winnie Pooh reference maybe.
