Sunday, April 23, 2006
Feds lower boom on Hu's Falun Gong heckler April 22, 2006
U.S. authorities are taking a hard line against the New York doctor who heckled President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao - hitting her with a federal charge that carries six months in prison.Full Article by TRACY CONNOR
Wenyi Wang, 47, a devotee of the Falun Gong movement, was originally booked on a disorderly conduct charge after she crashed Thursday's White House ceremony.
But the U.S. attorney's office later decided to charge her with harassing, intimidating and threatening a foreign official for yelling at Hu that his "days are numbered."
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This is understandable. Please don't falsely paint this as a case of censorship and oppression. The woman abused her right to free speech by saying "your days are numbered". That's a pretty cut and dry death threat.
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