US prosecutes worker for calling for peace between China & US. These prosecutions are reminiscent of the shameful history of the McCarthy-era “Red Scare,” which destroyed the lives of many innocent people. 美國起訴呼籲中美和平的工人. 這些起訴讓人想起麥卡錫時代“紅色恐慌”的可恥歷史，它摧毀了許多無辜者的生命.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/22/chinese-american-worker-and-activist-arrested-for-advocating-for-peace-between-us-and-china/
Liang was indicted and then arrested in early May in Boston in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. “The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between the US and China,” say labor activists in the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance of the AFL-CIO, the largest trade union in the US.

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https://www.apalanet.org/apala-ma-sign-on.html
Chinese American community activist and hotel worker Li Tang “Henry” Liang is being wrongfully prosecuted for exercising his protected free speech rights. The federal government has targeted Liang for advocating peaceful relations between the U.S. and China. Liang has served on the boards of directors for Chinatown Main Street and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England, and is an active member of his union UNITE HERE Local 26. Following his indictment, his employer placed him on indefinite suspension, unfairly depriving his family of income and assuming his guilt without due process.

Liang is facing charges under the Foreign Agents Relations Act (FARA). In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has used FARA to intimidate peace activists, journalists, and others for voicing opposition towards hawkish U.S. foreign policy. Liang’s indictment is part of a wave of racial profiling and repression which has targeted Chinese and Chinese American scientists, engineers, professors, graduate students and now a hotel worker. These prosecutions are reminiscent of the shameful history of the McCarthy-era “Red Scare,” which destroyed the lives of many innocent people. These prosecutions also irresponsibly inflame racist hatred against Chinese people in the midst of worsening U.S.-China relations and surging anti-Asian
hate violence.

Indictment document:
https://www.universalhub.com/images/2023/liang-indictment.pdf
Essentially, “guilty of speaking to the Chinese consulate”.

Even more chilling from the charging document is that everything he did was surveilled.

Notice the framing in these articles against him. Any of us could be arrested and accused of anything if we have any contact with anyone associated with the Chinese government, take pictures of counter protesters, or do any number common things that people do at protests:
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/brighton-man-charged-spy-beijing-feds-say-he
https://conandaily.com/2023/05/11/is-boston-massachusetts-litang-liang-a-chinese-spy-bond-set-at-25k/
Here’s an article in support of Liang:
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/22/chinese-american-worker-and-activist-arrested-for-advocating-for-peace-between-us-and-china/

Notice that this is a FARA indictment, essentially a process crime: “failure to register”, the lowest of the lowest hanging fruit–a nothing burger indictment.

This is the same type of indictment that they used against the “Chinese police station” individuals.

This indictment is essentially, “Doing [x] while Chinese”.
Because they can’t say “while Chinese”, in a legal document, this is replaced with “Doing [x] with Chinese”.