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美国华裔学生被关5天获赔410万美元

A Chinese-American university student mistakenly left in a Drug Enforcement Administration interrogation room for five days will receive $4.1 million from the government in a settlement in advance of a lawsuit.

一位美籍华裔大学生被“遗忘” 在美国缉毒署审讯室达5天之久。该名学生目前与缉毒署达成和解，将获赔410万美元。

The settlement was announced Tuesday in San Diego by the student, Daniel Chong, 25, and his lawyer, Eugene Iredale.

这位25岁的学生名叫丹尼尔·钟，他和他的律师艾尔代尔周二在圣地亚哥宣布了这项和解内容。

"It was an accident, a really bad, horrible accident," said Chong, who added that he now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“这是一起事故，一起非常严重恶劣的事故”，丹尼尔表示现在自己还遭受创伤后应激障碍的折磨。

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The bizarre event in April 2017 began when Chong, an engineering student at UC San Diego, went to a house near campus to smoke marijuana with friends and found himself swept up in a DEA raid.

丹尼尔是加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校工程学专业的学生，这起事件发生在2017年4月，当时他和朋友在学校附近的一处房子里吸食大麻，结果遇到了缉毒署的突袭抓捕行动。

After being questioned briefly at the DEA facility in San Diego, he was told he would be released. But, for reasons that remain unclear, he was left for five days in a 5-by-10-foot windowless room without food, water or toilet facilities.