称受迫害要避难 “西藏女尼”谎言拆穿被控

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<P>中新网3月26日电 美国政府官员说,自称身受迫害的西藏“女尼”索南雀丹(Sonam Chodon,译音)实际上根本就不是女尼。它已经被当局控以护照欺骗罪。</P>
<P>据美国侨报援引《华盛顿邮报》的报道,31岁的索南雀丹上周被控以护照欺骗、文件欺骗和伪证等罪名。她应该于周四向当局投案,然后在弗州亚历山大历亚的联邦地区法院接受提讯。</P>
<P>这名妇女在喜马拉雅山下的一个村庄中长大。她自称是逃避迫害的西藏女尼,因而赢得人权团体及国会议员的同情。但联邦政府官员说,为获得在美国的政治避难,她捏造了女尼的故事。实际上,索南雀丹案件是一个护照伪造团伙活动的一部分。</P>
<P>索南雀丹2003年对阿灵顿市一个移民法官说:“我是一个普通的佛教女尼。”她自称逃到尼泊尔一个尼姑庵中,将头发剃去,每天凌晨5时即起床诵经和烧香。但联邦特工手持索南雀丹的照片前往该尼姑庵调查,发现那个尼姑庵的人根本没有见过此人。</P>
<P>调查人员不知道她为什么自称是一个女尼。他们说,这个案件凸现了某些人利用移民法进行欺骗的危险性。</P>
<P>索南雀丹编造的故事在美国曾经轰动一时。《华盛顿邮报》去年曾经在头版登载过她的报道。</P>
<P>索南雀丹去年对记者说,她父亲被关押在西藏,受到酷刑。她声称,她在从西藏逃亡尼泊尔时需要躲开巡逻的警察。对索南雀丹的起诉书没有提及她所说的酷刑故事。但是,起诉书说,她到尼泊尔后花钱买了一本尼泊尔假护照,然后持假护照来美。在索南雀丹以前,这本假护照至少已被入境美国者使用过5次。</P><P>中新网3月26日电 美国政府官员说,自称身受迫害的西藏“女尼”索南雀丹(Sonam Chodon,译音)实际上根本就不是女尼。它已经被当局控以护照欺骗罪。</P>
<P>据美国侨报援引《华盛顿邮报》的报道,31岁的索南雀丹上周被控以护照欺骗、文件欺骗和伪证等罪名。她应该于周四向当局投案,然后在弗州亚历山大历亚的联邦地区法院接受提讯。</P>
<P>这名妇女在喜马拉雅山下的一个村庄中长大。她自称是逃避迫害的西藏女尼,因而赢得人权团体及国会议员的同情。但联邦政府官员说,为获得在美国的政治避难,她捏造了女尼的故事。实际上,索南雀丹案件是一个护照伪造团伙活动的一部分。</P>
<P>索南雀丹2003年对阿灵顿市一个移民法官说:“我是一个普通的佛教女尼。”她自称逃到尼泊尔一个尼姑庵中,将头发剃去,每天凌晨5时即起床诵经和烧香。但联邦特工手持索南雀丹的照片前往该尼姑庵调查,发现那个尼姑庵的人根本没有见过此人。</P>
<P>调查人员不知道她为什么自称是一个女尼。他们说,这个案件凸现了某些人利用移民法进行欺骗的危险性。</P>
<P>索南雀丹编造的故事在美国曾经轰动一时。《华盛顿邮报》去年曾经在头版登载过她的报道。</P>
<P>索南雀丹去年对记者说,她父亲被关押在西藏,受到酷刑。她声称,她在从西藏逃亡尼泊尔时需要躲开巡逻的警察。对索南雀丹的起诉书没有提及她所说的酷刑故事。但是,起诉书说,她到尼泊尔后花钱买了一本尼泊尔假护照,然后持假护照来美。在索南雀丹以前,这本假护照至少已被入境美国者使用过5次。</P>
<P>“联邦特工手持索南雀丹的照片前往该尼姑庵调查”</P><P>美国人真热情</P>
<P>这是没办法的,美国媒体最喜欢的就是报道所谓中国政府的阴暗面,抓到机会还不大书特书?</P><P>结果美国数一数二的大报华盛顿邮报,在根本没有查证的情况下就成了散布谣言的不入流小报,更不要说那些一贯的小报了,这个所谓言论自由的国家差不多要成为先入为主的载脏专业户了。</P><P>怪不得会有所谓“伊拉克拥有大杀伤武器”的“确凿”证据反复在纽约时报、华盛顿邮报上出现。</P>
<P>Tibetan Nun Is A Fake, U.S. Says</P><P>Woman Accused Of Passport Fraud</P><P>Sonam Chodon won the sympathy of human rights advocates and even a U.S. congressman because she said she was a Buddhist nun fleeing persecution in her native China. </P><P>Now the government says she was never a nun at all.</P><P>Chodon, 31, was indicted last week on charges of passport fraud, document fraud and perjury. She is expected to turn herself in to federal authorities before her arraignment in U.S. District Court in Alexandria today. </P><P>Federal officials said Chodon, who grew up in a Tibetan village near the foot of Mount Everest, concocted the nun tale as part of her highly publicized bid to gain asylum in the United States. She described going to a nunnery in Nepal, where she shaved her head, burned incense and arose at 5 a.m. to recite prayers. "I'm just a simple Buddhist nun,'' she told an immigration judge in Arlington in 2003. </P><P>In reality, the government says, Chodon is part of a passport fraud ring still under investigation. Federal investigators do not know why she allegedly faked being a nun, but they say the case highlights the potential danger posed by those who may exploit immigration laws, as the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and other terrorists have done. </P><P>"There is a national security issue here,'' said Michael J. Garcia, assistant homeland security secretary for immigration and customs enforcement. "Maybe not in this particular case, but we have a general vulnerability here.'' </P><P>Chodon's attorney, Richard Beizer, said she would plead not guilty at today's arraignment. Chodon, who was jailed in Virginia for nearly six months starting in 2003, could not be located. Federal officials said she is believed to have been living in New York. </P><P>Human rights workers and Tibetan activists fear that the charges may cause the United States to overlook the suffering of thousands of asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in China and political oppression around the world. Chodon -- who was featured in a front-page article last year in The Washington Post -- said her family members were tortured for their religious beliefs. </P><P>"It would be a great shame if this case undermines the support the American people give to the Tibetan people as a whole,'' said Kate Saunders, a spokesman for the D.C.-based International Campaign for Tibet. That organization's president told The Post last year that he had asked the group's members to urge Congress to intervene on Chodon's behalf and stop the government from fighting her request for asylum. </P><P>Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) praised the decision last year to release Chodon from a central Virginia jail, where she had been held since she arrived at Dulles International Airport from Nepal in 2003. "I'm completely convinced she's legitimate,'' Boucher said at the time. </P><P>Boucher said yesterday that he based his assessment on information provided by Chodon's attorney at the time and that he had been concerned that a Buddhist nun would be jailed. He said he never called anyone on Chodon's behalf, and he declined to comment on the indictment. </P><P>The charges are the latest twist in the saga of Chodon's journey to the United States, which she said began with a desperate eight-day walk to Nepal across snow-capped mountains. In an interview last year at the Riverside Regional Jail, Chodon said she was fleeing Chinese authorities, who have long been accused of persecuting Tibetans for their religious and political beliefs. </P><P>Chodon, who goes only by the name Sonam, told a reporter last year that her father had been jailed in Tibet and tortured with electric shock. She described hiding from police patrols as she made her way across the Himalayas to Nepal. </P><P>The indictment does not address Chodon's tale of torture. But it says that once in Nepal, Chodon paid money to obtain a false Nepalese passport and then used it for her trip to the United States in 2003. The same passport had been used at least five other times to enter the United States, the indictment said. </P><P>The indictment, filed March 15, charges Chodon with conspiracy, false use of a passport, misuse of a passport, immigration document fraud and perjury. Also charged was Kelsang Gurung, who federal officials said is another member of the ring believed to be in Nepal. He has not been arrested. </P><P>When Chodon arrived at Dulles, federal officials said, immigration inspectors flagged her passport as having been used before by someone else. She was jailed for almost six months. </P><P>Nevertheless, Chodon's request for asylum in the United States was granted in November 2003 by Paul Wickham Schmidt, a federal immigration judge in Arlington. </P><P>Garcia said having a fraudulent document does not necessarily bar someone from winning asylum. "Someone who needs to get out of a country with an oppressive regime grabs a document and flees. That's a sympathetic case,'' he said. "On the other hand, it raises concerns.'' </P><P>At a hearing before Schmidt, Chodon said she was first admitted to a Nepalese nunnery in March 2002. Federal agents traveled to Nepal, went to the nunnery and showed Chodon's picture, said a federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is not in the indictment. </P><P>The nunnery had never heard of Chodon, the official said.</P>
事实出来了,他未必会认真报道这事实了!!!!!
婊子做久了,这点臭事算得了什么?要都计较着,还怎么出来混啊!
<P>正常现象</P><P>当年64时就有很多借此拿到了美国绿卡</P>[em06]
<P>福建(福州人一带)去美国大都是这么干的。。。</P><P>呵呵。。。只有美国人的才是大傻蛋。。长乐人靠这个方法去美国有差不多十万(包括连带的)。。。</P><P>哈哈。。。没有别的意思</P><P>俺就是福州人。。。</P>
<P>这几天美国人正在大规模搜捕非法移民</P><P>估计会有很多人被遣返</P>[em06]
强烈抗议美国遣返非法入境的中国人.留在那里吧.我们北京不会遣返,也没有非法入京这一说.你老美是世界上最"好"的地方,为啥不让朝圣者去?