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发帖数: 1 | 1 中共驻英国大使郑泽光本计划周三（9月15日）访问英国议会，但前一天英国上下两院
议长联合决定，不允许郑泽光踏入英国议会，原因是中共迫害人权、并制裁敢言的英国
议员。
下议院议长林赛·霍伊尔（Lindsay Hoyle）爵士和议长麦克福尔男爵（McFall of
Alcluith）在周二（14日）最后一刻介入，阻止郑泽光踏入威斯敏斯特议会大厅。
今年3月，中共对批评其迫害新疆人权的9名英国人和4个实体，进行所谓的“制裁”，
这其中包括5名英国议员和2名上议院议员，这些议员一直对新疆人权问题提出尖锐批评。
今年夏天，英国“跨党派中国小组”（APPG）主席格雷厄姆（Richard Graham）议员向
郑泽光发出了邀请，请他到议会来参加会议，他没有事先征得两院的许可。
被中共制裁的对象中，包括前保守党党魁伊恩·邓肯·史密斯（Sir Iain Duncan
Smith）等人，他们联名写信给议长表示，邀请中共大使的行为是“具有威胁性的，试
图让我们和同事保持沉默，并破坏我们所有人的安全”。
他们补充说：“中国（中共）政府驻英首席代表可以自由地来到威斯敏斯特大楼，并利
用这里的设施为其政权鼓噪，而英国议员却必须忍受这种侵犯自由的行为，这是不可想
像的。”
下议院议长林赛爵士告诉《每日电讯报》：“我定期与来自世界各地的大使举行会议，
为的是跟其它国家和议员建立持久的联系。但我认为当我们议员被实施制裁时，我们还
跟中国（中共）大使在下议院和工作场所会面，是不合适的。”
他还解释说，并不是说要取消会议，而是这个会议不能在议会大厦里举行。
被中共制裁的保守党前党魁史密斯感谢两位议长的“迅速”行动，他说：“这次会晤不
应该在议会大厦举行，这是保护言论自由和自由人民的自由地方。”他表示，“让受制
裁的议员容忍中国（中共）大使来到国会大厦，是完全不可接受的。”
外界认为英中关系将会进一步恶化。 | G****d
发帖数: 1 | 2 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, September 9, 2021,
After at least four years of investigations and trials, Dr. Hu Anming, a
nanotechnology expert who was a professor at the University of Tennessee (UT
), was acquitted by a federal judge, following a mistrial this year. Dr. Hu
is the first to go to trial from the China Initiative, a program started by
the Trump Administration in 2018 to maintain U.S. economic advantages over
China.
"We want to thank United States District Judge Thomas A. Varlan for
upholding equal justice," said United Chinese Americans (UCA) Board Chairman
Jinliang Cai. "Thank you to the many Chinese American community groups and
individuals for the strong support of Dr. Hu, and we send condolences to Dr.
Hu and his family for this whole ordeal."
For two years, the federal government dragged Dr. Hu through investigations
for espionage, which caused him to lose his job as professor at UT. Last
year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not have enough to file
charges of espionage and instead filed charges of wire fraud and false
statements against the Chinese Canadian.
Judge Varlan wrote that no reasonable jury could have inferred that holding
a professorship at Beijing University of Technology disqualified him from
working on NASA-funded research and that the federal government's latter
charges failed the test of common sense.
The National Security Division of the Department of Justice has detailed
components of the China Initiative program, stating that some of the
purposes of the China Initiative is to counter espionage of the Chinese
government and protect American "national assets." But as many critics have
pointed out, with overzealous prosecutors and insufficient oversight, the
China Initiative program has turned into a witch hunt of racial profiling
for theater and show, ruining careers and turning peoples' lives upside down
. It causes fear and anxiety for many Chinese Americans, as well as
academics and scientists working in the U.S. who are of Asian descent, who
have been incorrectly scapegoated for COVID-19 and who are continuing to
make important contributions to U.S. science, technology and innovation.
"We demand that the Department of Justice investigate misconduct by the
involved government agencies, enact a moratorium on all pending cases of the
China Initiative, and for the White House to terminate the China Initiative
," said UCA President Haipei Shue.
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