Wuhan all over the place
A University of Minnesota student was detained in China and sentenced to six months in prison for tweets he posted while in the United States, according to Axios.
Chinese police detained 20-year-old Luo Daiqing last July in his hometown of Wuhan in central China, the news site reported. The liberal arts major had returned home after the end of the spring semester.
The sentencing came amid a wider crackdown on Chinese citizens posting comments critical of the regime on Twitter, which is banned in China. This, however, appears to be the first reported case of a citizen who was detained for online speech posted while overseas.
Court documents obtained by Axios alleged that from September to October 2018, Luo used his Twitter to posted more than 40 comments “denigrating a national leader’s image and indecent pictures,” which “created a negative social impact.”
A Twitter account belonging to Luo tweeted images of a cartoon villain Lawrence Limburger—who bears a resemblance to Chinese leader Xi Jinping—with Chinese propaganda slogans superimposed on top, Axios reported.
The account, which has since been closed down, also retweeted images of Winnie the Pooh, a cartoon character censored in China after netizens said Xi’s figure resembled the character’s rotund shape.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/university-of-minnesota-student-jailed-in-china-for-tweets-posted-while-in-us_3213795.html
while reading this article, it reminded me of something that happened in December:
Chinese Researcher Accused of Trying to Smuggle Biological Material Out of US
"A Chinese researcher was arrested in Boston on suspicion of stealing vials of biological samples, according to court documents unsealed on Dec. 19.
Customs officials stopped Zheng Zaosong for questioning at Boston Logan International Airport on Dec. 9, upon flagging him as “a high risk for possibly exporting undeclared biological material,” a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent said in an affidavit filed with the Massachusetts district court on Dec. 12.
Zheng, a 29-year-old researcher at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital in China’s southern province of Guangdong, came to Harvard University’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a visiting graduate student in pathology. He was heading to Beijing at the time of the arrest."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-researcher-investigated-for-allegedly-trying-to-smuggle-out-vials-of-biological-material_3183421.html
prolly not related, but thought it should be tossed in for consideration.