Northwestern University sued over suicide of Chinese-American scientist targeted by the Justice Department. Though she was never charged, Northwestern closed her lab and reassigned her grant funding

Davriellelouna@lemmy.world · edit-2 8 days ago

Northwestern University sued over suicide of Chinese-American scientist targeted by the Justice Department. Though she was never charged, Northwestern closed her lab and reassigned her grant funding

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · edit-2 7 days ago

and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital

Holy fuck. How is that not the thing leading the headline? That is just kidnapping with zero legal basis.

A 2021 investigation from the MIT Technology Review found that 148 individuals were charged, but just 40 of them had pleaded or been found guilty. Only 19 cases included violations of the Economic Espionage Act, the intended focus of the initiative.

Just some blanket racism.

tad@sh.itjust.works · 7 days ago

This is the part that gets me too. Not sure how they were able to do that without the family’s knowledge.