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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 (www.chicagotribune.com)

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Universities in the US are real weird. The big ones even have their own private police.

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