纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Family of American Woman Held in China for 10 Years Asks for Help
September 11, 2024 2 min 312 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是，一名美国妇女在中国被关押了10年，她的家人请求美国政府帮助营救。这名妇女名叫韩飞龙（Peter Hahn），他的妻子尼科尔韩（Nicole Hahn）因涉嫌偷窃国家秘密而被关押。韩飞龙表示，尼科尔在被关押期间遭受了酷刑，并患有严重的健康问题。他指责中国当局不公平地关押他的妻子，并呼吁美国政府采取行动确保她的释放。 这篇报道有几个方面值得关注。首先，它只提供了韩飞龙一方的说法，而没有中国政府的回应。其次，它使用了煽动性的语言，例如“遭受酷刑”和“不公平关押”，但没有提供详细的证据。最后，它忽略了美国公民在中国违法这一事实，而是一味强调美国政府的救援行动。因此，这篇报道有可能存在一定的偏见，需要读者谨慎对待。
Dawn Michelle Hunt loved sweepstakes. A 42-year-old temp worker in Chicago, she entered almost every contest she encountered. So when she got an email from someone who described himself as a British lawyer saying she had won a trip to Australia, she was elated.
“I hit it big,” she told her father after the plane ticket arrived.
The trip took her through China to pick up the prize documents, along with handbags that she was instructed to carry on to Australia. The British lawyer had promised in an email to meet her there. “My dear Dawn,” he called her.
But sewn into the lining of the bags was more than two kilos, or 4.5 pounds, of methamphetamines, Chinese authorities say. Instead of a resort in Australia, Ms. Hunt landed in a Chinese prison, sentenced to death, with a two-year reprieve. Ms. Hunt’s sentence, handed down in 2017, was later commuted to life.
Ms. Hunt and her family say that she was an unwitting victim of an elaborate drug trafficking scheme, versions of which have ensnared people around the world, including a number of older Americans.
Courts in some cases have handed down reduced sentences, recognizing that the offenders had been duped into being drug mules. China is known for its strict drug laws, and a review of several cases there with similar circumstances — in which foreign offenders may have been scammed or set up — indicates that courts are not so lenient in such cases.
In a ruling on Ms. Hunt’s case, a judge acknowledged the ruse, but concluded that she was smart enough to have realized what was really happening by the time she arrived in Asia.