Yesterday, Rep. Nick LaLota (R-Suffolk County) spoke on the floor of the House calling on the Biden Administration and State Department to do everything in their power to bring Huntington’s Kai Li home from China, where he has been detained since 2016.
“Since being sworn into office fourteen months ago, I have called on this Administration to do everything in its power to bring Kai Li home to his family, including his son Harrison. This is yet another example of the CCP’s long history of aggressively targeting and detaining individuals on trumped-up charges of spying,” said LaLota. “Soon, I will be introducing legislation to urge this Administration to prioritize bringing Kai home and end his wrongful detainment. We must right this wrong and reunite a broken family.”
Background:
Next week, LaLota will introduce a resolution urging the Administration to prioritize bringing Kai home and end his wrongful detainment.
Since 2016, Kai Li of Huntington, New York, has been unjustly imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2016, Kai Li visited Shanghai to mark the first anniversary of his mother’s death. When he arrived at the airport in Shanghai, CCP authorities immediately arrested him on “state security charges.”
For months Kai was held in secret detention without access to legal counsel. Then, almost two years later in July 2018, in a one-hour secret trial, Kai was convicted of espionage.
