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FOIA Appeal for Records on Government's Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute U.S.-Based Scientists and Researchers Believed to Have Connections to China
The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (together, the “ACLU”) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (“Advancing Justice | AAJC”) appeals the decision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to administratively close the Freedom of Information Act request for records pertaining to the government’s efforts to scrutinize, investigate, prosecute, and take other measures against U.S.-based scientists and researchers believed to have connections to China.
The hearing marked the start of what is known as the US Department of Justice's China initiative to uncover such espionage cases. In the meantime, however, the initiative itself is under pressure, because
Roundtable Led by Reps. Raskin and Chu Hears About Effects of Ethnic Profiling Against Chinese American Scientists
Today, Representative Jamie Raskin, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Representative Judy Chu, Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), held a roundtable entitled “Researching while Chinese American: Ethnic Profiling, Chinese American Scientists and a New American Brain Drain.”
Civil Rights and Academic Groups Deliver Petition to New York University President to Stop Racial Profiling Professors of Asian Descent
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New York, NY – Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC), American Association of University Professors NYU Chapter (AAUP-NYU), and the Union for Graduate Employees at New York University (GSOC) delivered a petition to NYU President Andrew Hamilton with over 1,100 signatures from the academic community, including NYU faculty, staff, and students, concer
Civil Rights and Academic Groups Deliver Petition to New York University President to Stop Racial Profiling Professors of Asian Descent
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, American Association of University Professors NYU Chapter (AAUP-NYU), and the Union for Graduate Employees at New York University (GSOC) delivered a petition to NYU President Andrew Hamilton with over 1,100 signatures from the academic community, including NYU faculty, staff, and students, concerned citizens, and community members in response to the unjust suspension and elimination of proper due process protections of two tenured professors of Asian descent at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Letter to Acting United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Tennessee to Drop Charges Against Dr. Anming Hu
Advancing Justice | AAJC sent a letter today asking the acting U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Tennessee to drop the charges against Dr. Anming Hu, an Asian immigrant professor who has been unjustly investigated and prosecuted under the DOJ's “China Initiative.”
Advancing Justice | AAJC Submits Testimony for the Democratic Member Roundtable “Researching while Chinese American: Ethnic Profiling, Chinese American Scientists and a New American Brain Drain”
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC submitted testimony for the record for the Democratic Member Roundtable entitled, “Researching while Chinese American: Ethnic Profiling, Chinese American Scientists and a New American Brain Drain” held on June 30, 2021 by the U.S.
Until last year at the University of Tennessee, Anming Hu studied, among other things, how to join certain metals together using materials that are more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. He also ran a group developing similar nanoscale technologies at an institute in Beijing.
The federal trial began Monday for a University of Tennessee researcher accused of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university.
Anming Hu was arrested last year on an indictment alleging three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.
Hu's family, friends and supporters Monday held a rally to speak out against the case in Knoxville. They contend the case is another example of the U.S. government's "unjust" prosecution of Asian Americans, accusing authorities of singling out scientists of Asian descent and conducting racial profiling.