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Four agonizing months later, the government dropped all charges. But for Professor Xi and his family, the damage had already been done. https://t.co/Tv3OdexX22 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 7, 2022

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In May 2015, FBI agents stormed Professor Xi’s home in Pennsylvania and arrested him at gunpoint in front of his wife and daughters for supposedly sharing sensitive technology with China. They threatened him with 80 years in prison and $1 million in fines. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 7, 2022

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His academic reputation was shattered. He was placed on leave, suspended from his position as the interim chair of the Temple Physics Department, and denied access to his lab. His family became terrified to leave the house, and lived in fear of FBI intimidation and surveillance. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 7, 2022