纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Pigeon Was Cleared of Being a Chinese Spy but Served 8 Months Anyway
February 7, 2024 2 min 324 words
这篇报道揭示了美国司法系统中的一些严重问题。尽管鸽子被证明不是中国间谍，但他仍然被关押了8个月。这种冤案的发生，凸显了审判中的不公和对个人权利的漠视。司法机构应该以确凿的证据为基础进行判决，而不是基于偏见或猜测。此案也反映了一些国家间关系的紧张局势，导致对特定国籍或种族的歧视性行为。保障公民的合法权益是司法体系的首要职责，而不应受到政治或外交因素的影响。希望此类事件能够引起更广泛的关注，并促使改革措施的实施，以确保司法公正和个人权利的尊重。
Suspicion of foreign espionage, cursive messages in ancient Chinese, a sensitive microchip — and a suspect that could not be stopped at the border.
Ravindar Patil, the assistant Mumbai police sub-inspector assigned to the case, was scratching his head for answers. But first, he had to find a place to lock up the unusual captive.
So he turned to a veterinary hospital in the Indian metropolis, asking it to retrieve a list of “very confidential and necessary” information about the suspect — a black pigeon caught lurking at a port where international vessels dock.
“The police never came to check the pigeon,” said Dr. Mayur Dangar, the manager of the hospital.
After eight months, the bird was finally set free this week, its innocence of spying for China long confirmed through crack detective work, but the jail doors flung open only after a newspaper report, repeated letters to the police by the veterinary hospital, and intervention from an animal rights group.
The group, PETA India, celebrated what it called the end of a “wrongful imprisonment.”
“PETA India handles 1,000 calls a week of animal emergencies, but this was our first case of a suspected spy who needed to be freed,” said Meet Ashar, who leads the organization’s cruelty response division.
Mr. Ashar said the case had put the hospital’s staff members in a dilemma: They didn’t want to expose a healthy bird to the sick and injured, but they also couldn’t set it free because “it was such a high-profile case and the charge was so serious.”