Forty-five Muslim community organizations and civil liberties advocacy groups wrote a letter to Obama on Wednesday saying that the reported surveillance was part of a wider pattern in which law enforcement agencies had targeted American Muslims for intelligence gathering without suspicion of wrongdoing.
Wang was detained in mid-September on suspicion of "gathering crowds to disturb public order" but had not been formally arrested until Sunday.
A 66-year-old naturalized American citizen has been jailed here for 18 months on suspicion of gathering state secrets, his relatives and American officials revealed today.
A6 American Held in Beijing Fuming Fong, a 66-year-old naturalized American citizen from West Orange, N.J., has been jailed in Beijing for 18 months on suspicion of gathering state secrets, his relatives and American officials disclosed.
A scanned detention notice distributed by the New-York-based group said Xu was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of gathering people to disturb order in a public place.
He was held on suspicion of "gathering people to disturb order in a public place".Zhang Xiaoming, China's top representative in Hong Kong, had lunch with pro-democracy lawmakers for the first time since the territory reverted to China in 1997.
Fuming Fong, a 66-year-old naturalized citizen from West Orange, N.J., has been held for 18 months by China's security apparatus on suspicion of gathering state secrets, although he has never been formally charged, in violation of China's legal code.
On Monday, a wealthy Chinese businessman, Wang Gongquan, was formally arrested on suspicion of "gathering crowds to disturb public order".
