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A federal indictment charges Haverford professor Guangtian Ha with cyberstalking a colleague.
Fox News and The Philadelphia Inquirer report that Guangtian Ha, a Haverford College religion professor, was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, on a federal cyberstalking charge. Prosecutors allege he used anonymous X accounts to send about 50 threatening, antisemitic messages to a Jewish colleague.
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An indictment is the charge. It is not a finding that the messages were sent, and Fox News reports the 2024 antisemitism lawsuit that named Ha did not establish unlawful conduct and is distinct from this count. Haverford has placed him on administrative leave and barred him from campus, and The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a conviction would carry up to five years in prison.
Fox News and The Philadelphia Inquirer report that Guangtian Ha was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, and charged in a federal indictment with cyberstalking. Fox News reports prosecutors allege he used at least four anonymous X accounts to send about 50 threatening, antisemitic messages to a Jewish colleague between October 2025 and May 2026. The same account says prosecutors allege he posted the colleague's home address, referenced the colleague's children, and made statements invoking the Holocaust. The colleague is not named in the court filings, the Inquirer reports. The messages described in those filings are allegations. They are not a verdict.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the colleague's spouse and three children temporarily left their home twice. Fox News, citing the Inquirer, reports the same. The Inquirer reports the FBI linked the accounts to Ha's home and to IP addresses designated for Haverford faculty and staff. Those are allegations in court records as the paper describes them. An IP-address match in a filing is not a conviction.
Haverford College President Wendy Raymond said, in a statement Fox News reports was provided by a college spokesperson and that the Inquirer quotes from a campus message, "I am heartbroken and furious at the possibility that an individual within our community would seek to inflict such pain on another." Fox News reports Raymond said Ha was already on sabbatical and not teaching this academic year, and that the college has placed him on administrative leave and barred him from campus while the criminal case proceeds. She also thanked the FBI, the Haverford Township Police Department, and Campus Safety for aiding the investigation, Fox News reports. The Inquirer identifies Ha as an assistant professor of religion.
Fox News reports Ha was previously named in a 2024 antisemitism lawsuit against Haverford that the college settled in August 2026. The outlet reports that lawsuit did not establish that he engaged in unlawful conduct, and that those allegations are distinct from the federal cyberstalking charge. The Inquirer reports that if convicted he could face up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines. A statutory maximum is not a sentence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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