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发帖数: 2555 | 1 Iran Sentences U.S. Graduate Student to 10 Years on Spying Charges
By RICK GLADSTONE
JULY 16, 2017
An American student from Princeton University was arrested in Iran and has
been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges he was spying for the United
States, an Iranian judiciary official said Sunday, an action bound to
aggravate relations between the two countries.
The arrest and sentencing of the American, Xiyue Wang, a graduate student in
history, was announced months after he had vanished in Iran, where he was
doing research for a doctoral thesis. There had been rumors of his arrest,
but the announcement on Sunday from Iran was the first official confirmation.
A spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, said at
a
weekly news conference that one of “America’s infiltrators&rdquo
; had been
prosecuted, but he did not identify Mr. Wang by name or nationality. The
judiciary’s Mizan News Agency provided his name and more detail,
saying he
had “spider connections” with American and British intelligence
agencies.
A Princeton University spokesman, Daniel Day, confirmed that Mr. Wang, an
American citizen of Chinese descent, was the man arrested in Iran. “
That’s
our guy,” Mr. Day said in a telephone interview.
He also said the university had known about the arrest for months but had
been trying to work quietly to have Mr. Wang freed.
In a statement issued after news of his arrest and sentence was reported,
the university said Mr. Wang was a fourth-year doctoral candidate
specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century Eurasian history who had been
arrested last summer while doing scholarly research in Iran on the Qajar
dynasty.
“Since his arrest, the university has worked with Mr. Wang’s
family, the U
.S. government, private counsel and others to facilitate his release,”
the
statement said.
“We were very distressed by the charges brought against him in
connection
with his scholarly activities, and by his subsequent conviction and sentence
,” the statement continued. “His family and the university are
distressed
at his continued imprisonment and are hopeful that he will be released after
his case is heard by the appellate authorities in Tehran.”
Referring to Mr. Wang, the spokesman said the person sentenced in the
espionage case had been “identified and arrested by the Intelligence
Ministry’s forces, and it was established that he was gathering
information
and was involved in spying activities.” | T*********s
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: Iran Sentences U.S. Graduate Student to 10 Years on Spying Charges
: By RICK GLADSTONE
: JULY 16, 2017
: An American student from Princeton University was arrested in Iran and has
: been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges he was spying for the United
: States, an Iranian judiciary official said Sunday, an action bound to
: aggravate relations between the two countries.
: The arrest and sentencing of the American, Xiyue Wang, a graduate student in
: history, was announced months after he had vanished in Iran, where he was
: doing research for a doctoral thesis. There had been rumors of his arrest,
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发帖数: 8922 | 4 A Princeton University spokesman, Daniel Day, confirmed that Mr. Wang, an
American citizen of Chinese descent, was the man arrested in Iran. | M*****8
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