Chicoms try to undermine expat candidate for Congress
The Justice Department accused Chinese intelligence of attempting to undermine the congressional candidacy of a former Tiananmen Square protest leader-turned-retired U.S. Army chaplain in a criminal harassment and intimidation scheme.
The charges were leveled against Qiming Lin, a former Chinese police officer who later joined China’s Ministry of State Security, which is China's internal intelligence and secret police agency. An FBI special agent assessed that Lin continued to act on behalf of the Chinese ministry despite his ostensible retirement.
Lin allegedly hired a private investigator last year in an effort to stop the candidacy of Xiong Yan, who is listed as “The Victim” in the court filings but is easily identifiable, with potential plans to stop Yan including digging up dirt, pushing falsehoods, and potentially even using violence.
Yan attended Beijing University Law School and was a student leader in the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, after which he was detained for nearly two years. He came to the United States as a political refugee in 1992 and soon joined the military, where his biography says he served for 26 years, including two tours in Iraq as a military chaplain. He has testified before Congress about the Chinese government's brutality, traveled to Hong Kong for pro-democracy protests in 2015, and is seeking the Democratic nomination for a House of Representatives seat in New York’s 1st Congressional District in June.
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It looks like the Chicoms hold a grudge against those seeking freedom in China.
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