Arrested Falun Gong Protester Reportedly Facing Possible Deportation
by Chad Groening
May 2, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A Chinese immigrant who faces federal charges for shouting at President Hu Jintao during the communist leader's recent visit to the White House says if convicted, she could be deported back to China. The medical doctor says she wanted to call attention to persecution in her homeland. Dr. Wang Wenyi is a pathologist who practices medicine in New York City. But the Chinese native is also a writer for the Epoch Times, and has reported on large-scale organ harvesting being conducted from living members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. She shares why she verbally confronted the Chinese leader and President Bush with shouted statements.
"I say something to President Bush, tell him, 'Stop the persecution of Falun Gong, the killing of practitioners,' something like that," she says, "because as a physician you consider that humanity -- it cost everything."
Dr. Wang says she used her media pass to get close enough to shout at President Hu. "People [are] dying and at risk, and we need to really stop them [from being mistreated]," Wang says. "So that's why at the White House I just speak so loudly and ask them to stop the persecution against the Falun Gong, stop the harvest of organs from practitioners."
Wang explains that she took action even though she knew there would probably be consequences. She now faces up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine -- and possible deportation.
"The lawyer told me the charges were serious -- coercing, threatening, intimidating, harassing, or something -- because I have not taken the oath ceremony yet, so [I'm] not officially a citizen yet," she shares. "Then they say that [I] have a risk to be deported." She admits that "part of me is ready to be [handed over to] a foreign state."
Dr. Wang is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow (May 3).
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
