Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison
Coverage by Democracy Now! of the case of Mr. Hiu Lui Ng, the thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer who died earlier this month in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. For this story, which aired yesterday, Democracy Now! interviewed Joshua Bardavid, an immigration attorney in New York, who is representing Hiu Lui Ng’s family; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Democratic Congress member from California, who serves as Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law; and Renee Feltz, investigative journalist based in NYC. Click on the link to watch or listen to the interviews online, or read the transcript.