![]() soil, and undermine our treasured American values and rights.” The United States will not tolerate blatantly illegal actions that target U.S. ![]() residents for simply exercising their freedom of speech. “As alleged, all three cases involve campaigns to silence, harass, discredit and spy on U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York. “The complaints unsealed today reveal the outrageous and dangerous lengths to which the PRC government’s secret police and these defendants have gone to attack the rule of law and freedom in New York City and elsewhere in the United States,” stated U.S. We will not allow any foreign government to impede their freedom of speech, to deny them the protection of our laws or to threaten their safety or the safety of their families.” law. The Department of Justice will defend the rights of Americans and those who come to live, work, and study in the United States. “This activity is antithetical to fundamental American values, and we will not tolerate it when it violates U.S. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Transnational repression harms people in the United States and around the world and threatens the rule of law itself,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. In another of these schemes, three defendants planned to destroy the artwork of a PRC national residing in Los Angeles that was critical of the PRC government, and planted surveillance equipment in the artist’s workplace and car to spy on him from the PRC. military veteran who was a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing, PRC. In one of these schemes, the co-conspirators sought to interfere with federal elections by allegedly orchestrating a campaign to undermine the U.S. residents whose political views and actions are disfavored by the PRC government, such as advocating for democracy in the PRC. The other two defendants remain at large.Īccording to court documents, all the defendants allegedly perpetrated transnational repression schemes to target U.S. ![]() Their initial appearances are scheduled this afternoon in Brooklyn before U.S. Two complaints were unsealed, and one amended complaint was authorized today in federal court charging five defendants with various crimes related to efforts by the secret police of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to stalk, harass and spy on Chinese nationals residing in Queens, New York, and elsewhere in the United States.įan “Frank” Liu and Matthew Ziburis were arrested yesterday in the Eastern District of New York, while Shujun Wang was arrested this morning in the Eastern District of New York. Congress in Brooklyn Who Expressed Views Critical of the PRC and by Scheming to Destroy a PRC Dissident’s Artwork Criticizing the PRC Government Defendants Participated in Transnational Repression Schemes to Silence Critics of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Residing in the United States and Abroad – Including by Attempting to Disrupt the Campaign of a U.S.
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