使馆外人行道抗议被捕，牧师出庭不认罪：检方推进指控，法官下远离令
华盛顿——据《基督邮报》（Christian Post） 10 月 23 日报道，基督教防卫联盟领袖、牧师帕特里克·马霍尼（Patrick Mahoney）本周三在哥伦比亚特区高等法院提审，对"非法进入"轻罪作无罪答辩。他通过电话出庭，当时人在爱达荷州。
法官下达了远离令：在案件审结之前，马霍尼不得再踏上中国驻美大使馆外的那条人行道。检方决定推进刑事指控，下次开庭定在 11 月 20 日。美国法律正义中心（ACLJ）代理马霍尼抗辩，律师乔丹·塞库洛誓言在法庭上把官司打到底。
背景是 9 月 28 日，马霍尼在中国驻美大使馆（华盛顿）外的人行道上抗议被捕，在拘留室被关押了 5 小时。抗议时，他在人行道上铺了一块"红毯"，上面写着被迫害者的名字，包括被监禁的传媒大亨黎智英、香港人、法轮功学员和维吾尔人。
马霍尼单方面称，中方外交官曾走出使馆、明显愤怒，并要求特勤局抓人；特勤局转述"中方称这条人行道属于中国"。马霍尼还说，这是他几十年社会活动生涯中的第 113 次被捕——此前他从未在使馆外被捕过。
（GSM 据《基督邮报》）
来源：GSM·美国
Pastor Pleads Not Guilty After Arrest Outside Chinese Embassy; Prosecutors Move Forward
WASHINGTON — The Rev. Patrick Mahoney, leader of the Christian Defense Coalition, was arraigned on Wednesday in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on a misdemeanor "unlawful entry" charge, pleading not guilty by phone from Idaho, the Christian Post reported on October 23.
The judge issued a stay-away order barring Mahoney from the public sidewalk outside the Chinese Embassy until the case is decided. Prosecutors moved forward with the criminal charge, and the next
court date was set for November 20. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is representing Mahoney, with attorney Jordan Sekulow vowing to fight the charge in court.
The case stems from September 28, when Mahoney was arrested for protesting on the public sidewalk outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., and held in a holding cell for five hours. During the protest, he laid a "red fabric" on the sidewalk bearing the names of people persecuted by the Chinese government, including imprisoned media mogul Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong residents, Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs.
Mahoney claimed, in his own account, that Chinese diplomats came out of the embassy "visibly angry" and asked the Secret Service to remove him, and that agents relayed that "the Chinese government has said this sidewalk belongs to China." He also said it was his 113th arrest in decades of advocacy — though his first outside the embassy.
(GSM, based on the Christian Post)
Source: GSM · America
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：中国驻美国大使馆（华盛顿）（资料图）。照片：美国之音，公有领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The Embassy of China in Washington, D.C. (file photo). Photo: Voice of America, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
