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Update: An emergency application has been filed with the court. Several witnesses and I have submitted materials to support the review. The case is not over. Full statement in English below In response to inquiries from multiple German media outlets, I am issuing this statement regarding my interviewee Xu Xiaoren (known online as Macaron), who currently faces imminent deportation from Germany. In March 2025, Xu was the only Chinese citizen I encountered on the Russian frontlines willing to appear on camera, showing his face, to condemn the war: "Every inch of land is paid for in blood. It is inhuman and immoral." For the year that followed, he endured relentless persecution and lived in flight because of this. Guided by professional ethics, I documented his journey through video, audio, and over 100,000 words of investigative notes, cross-verified by multiple witnesses, to record the risks the interviewee faced and to offer him a measure of protection. In thirty years of investigative journalism, this is the first time I have had to do this. It shows how grave I believed the situation to be. In February 2026, Xu escaped Russia. By April, I was informed that he had reached Germany, facing immediate deportation. He asked me to submit these original records to @BAMF_Dialog. I never got the chance. No evidence was reviewed. No contact was made — with me or any other witness. Instead, BAMF ruled his application "manifestly unfounded," dismissing my statement as "mere rumors and unsubstantiated assertions." An emergency application has been filed with the court. Several witnesses and I have submitted materials to support the review. I am grateful for the attention of the press. A man who admitted he entered the war by mistake, who then defected from within it, and what he became over that year, may tell us something about how wars could truly end: the reflection, the suffering, the compassion, the change. It is a battle of the human soul. I ask the German people to hear his story, and to judge for themselves. Full statement in English

In response to inquiries from multiple German media outlets, I am issuing this statement regarding my interviewee Xu Xiaoren (known online as Macaron ), who currently faces imminent deportation from Germany. In March 2025, Xu was the only Chinese citizen I encountered on the Russian frontlines willing to appear on camera, showing his face, to condemn the war: "Every inch of land is paid for in blood. It is inhuman and immoral." For the year that followed, he endured relentless persecution and lived in flight because of this. Guided by professional ethics, I documented his journey through video, audio, and over 100,000 words of investigative notes, cross-verified by multiple witnesses, to record the risks the interviewee faced and to offer him a measure of protection. In thirty years of investigative journalism, this is the first time I have had to do this. It shows how grave I believed the situation to be. In February 2026, Xu escaped Russia. By April, I was informed that he had reached Germany, facing immediate deportation. He asked me to submit these original records to @BAMF_Dialog. I never got the chance. No evidence was reviewed. No contact was made — with me or any other witness. Instead, BAMF ruled his application "manifestly unfounded," dismissing my statement as "mere rumors and unsubstantiated assertions." I am grateful for the attention of the press. A man who admitted he entered the war by mistake, who then defected from within it, and what he became over that year, may tell us something about how wars could truly end: the reflection, the suffering, the compassion, the change. It is a battle of the human soul. I ask the German people to hear his story, and to judge for themselves. This is my full statement in German：

节目中忘了交代一句，清华营建系在1952年学苏的院系调整中，只留下建筑专业，林徽因哭了。做这期节目时我常想起她写徐志摩的那句话，最动人处是对理想的一片“愚诚”。 柴静谈林徽因：面对林徽因，还有多少需要纠正的历史错误？ https://t.co/fKTHJWo5Tz

留言里对政治看法不一，但有个事貌似高度一致，“有妻如是，夫复何求？”【柴静访谈美国华裔博士王夕越/妻子曲桦】“我如何把丈夫救出伊朗监狱？” https://t.co/w8cZC0crS1

这个采访让我意外的是，当庄祖宜被厨师举报，大陆盛传她是美国间谍，要在中国搞颜色革命时，台湾某些人向美国政府和CIA举报庄祖宜是中国间谍，导致她被调查。敌对双方对她私生活的攻击同样不堪。她在采访中说了一句话“这让我意识到有些东西不关乎政体，而关乎人性。”【柴静访谈前美国驻成都总领事夫人庄祖宜】首谈中美互撤领馆风波：“被两方夹攻时我对世界特别绝望” https://t.co/Oh8rg4xiMP via @YouTube