No Charges for Woman Who Heckled Chinese Leader

Posted on June 23, 2006 6:31 AM | | Comments (0)

By The Associated Press | The New York Times
June 22, 2006

The Falun Gong follower who heckled China's president, Hu Jintao, at a White House ceremony has reached a deal with prosecutors under which all charges against her will be dropped, her lawyer said.

The woman, Wang Wenyi, faced a misdemeanor charge of intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official for interrupting the April 20 event in which President Bush welcomed Mr. Hu to the White House. She could have faced six months in jail and a fine.

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