From yesterday’s press launch from the Ministry of Justice:
A Berklee Faculty of Music pupil, who’s a citizen of the Individuals’s Republic of China (PRC), was convicted right now by a federal jury in Boston of stalking and threatening a person who had distributed fliers in help of democracy in China across the Berklee campus. .
Xiaolei Wu, 26, was convicted after a four-day jury trial of 1 rely of cyberstalking and one rely of interstate transmission of threatening communications. U.S. District Court docket Decide Denise J. Casper scheduled sentencing for April 24, 2024. Wu was arrested and charged on a felony grievance in December 2022 and subsequently indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2023….
On October 22, 2022, whereas Wu was attending Berklee Faculty of Music, somebody posted a flyer on or close to the Berklee Faculty of Music campus that learn, “Stand with Chinese language Individuals,” and in addition, “We Need Freedom,” and ‘We would like democracy’. Starting on or about October 22, 2022 and persevering with till October 24, 2022, Wu issued a sequence of communications by way of WeChat, electronic mail and Instagram to the sufferer who posted the flyer. Wu mentioned, amongst different issues, “Submit extra, I’ll reduce off your motherfuckers.” He additionally instructed the sufferer that he had knowledgeable the general public safety company in China of the sufferer’s actions and that the general public safety company in China would “greet” the sufferer’s household. As well as, Wu requested others to search out out the place the sufferer lived, publicly posted the sufferer’s electronic mail handle within the hope that others would abuse the sufferer on-line, and reported the sufferer’s data again to a member of the Chinese language authorities ….
It’s also possible to learn the FBI agent’s affidavit describing the details as the federal government claimed them to be. A fraction:
12. On or about October 22, 2022, at roughly 10:48 PM, after Particular person 1 posted the picture of the kite on Instagram, WU posted to the Berklee Class of 2024 WeChat group. On the time, the group had greater than 300 members, together with Particular person 1. WU’s messages had been in Chinese language. A translation of WU’s messages reveals that he mentioned the next:
@[Individual 1] do not you fucking put up reactionary posters
Rattling crack [tore] everybody, motherfucker
You are going to put up them in Tiananmen Sq.
For those who put up extra, I will reduce off your bastard hand(s).
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Let it bark [sic] chew your hand(s) off
Not killed by a pandemic, however about to be killed by public security
[image of law enforcement personnel]13. On October 23, 2022, at roughly 1:54 a.m., WU posted one other message to the Berklee Class of 2024 WeChat group, saying the next:
I’ve already known as the county’s public security tip line
The company will greet your loved ones.