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China student says she received threats for role in Tibet protests
0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A Chinese woman studying in the United States says she has become the victim of threats and intimidation here for her role during a recent campus protest against China's crackdown in Tibet.
"Trying to mediate between Chinese and pro-Tibetan campus protesters, I was caught in the middle and vilified and threatened by the Chinese," Grace Wang, a student at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, wrote in the Washington Post Sunday.
The student demonstrations at Duke came at the height of pro-Tibet protests earlier this month during the US leg of the Olympic torch run, ahead of China's hosting of the 2008 Olympics.
A surge of pro-Tibet protests and rallies cropped up across the United States, and hundreds of anti-China demonstrators dogged...
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