"Just because I decided to file a lawsuit doesn’t mean I don’t like America. But ethnic prejudice has victimized many innocent people, and I am one of them. " Xiao Xiaoxing said at the lecture that in the past two years, he traveled all over the United States to give speeches to let everyone know that his experience could happen to anyone.
Xiao Xiaoxing, a professor of physics at Temple University in Philadelphia. (Source: US "World News", reporter Li Xiulan photography) In 2015, Xiao Xiaoxing was arrested by the FBI for allegedly leaking confidential scientific and technological data. He was released afterwards and all charges were dropped.
Xiao Xiaoxing said that he was initially charged with four counts, which was due to four emails he had sent, that is, only four emails were used to bring criminal charges against him. There is something about Pocket Heater in the e-mail, and the FBI personnel don’t know about pocket heater, so they mistakenly think that the content in the e-mail is confidential data. In fact, these are all public data, and these emails do not involve confidential information.
In 2017, Xiao Xiaoxing, represented by three lawyers in Washington, filed a civil lawsuit against the FBI. Xiao Xiaoxing said that the lawsuit is still under trial in the court. His decision to file a lawsuit and give a national speech is to expose the wrong law enforcement of the FBI.
California Rep. Ding Youli said at the seminar that what happened to Xiao Xiaoxing was a replica of the 1999 Li Wenhe case. Li Wenhe, a scientist, used to work in Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, but was investigated for being Chinese. Finally, the federal judge presiding over the case publicly apologized to Li Wenhe.