Witness testifies he was harassed after holding a protest against the establishment of alleged Fuzhou-controlled facility in New York
Lu has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers maintain that the police station was simply a service centre where overseas Chinese could renew their drivers’ licenses as a convenience during the pandemic.
Testifying on behalf of the government, dissident Xu Jie said he travelled from his home in Pomona, California, to New York after the police station was set up, and he live-streamed a demonstration against it on YouTube, after which he was harassed.
Asked whether he understood what the term “dissident” meant, Xu responded: “I’m very much familiar with dissident. I am one of them. In China, I understand it to be a group of people who criticise the Chinese government.”
US federal agents arrest 2 men for running Chinese ‘secret police station’ in New York
Source: News - South China Morning Post
