Iran sentenced a Princeton Chinese-American graduate student to 10 years in jail on spying charges
By Charlotte Gao
The Diplomat - July 18, 2017
On July 16, Iran announced that a
Chinese-American graduate student from Princeton University had been
sentenced to jail for 10 years on spying charges. According to Reuters,
the student is a dual national (U.S. and China). On July 17, China
denied the claim and emphasized that the student is not a Chinese
citizen.
According to Iran’s judiciary spokesman,
Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejeie, the jailed American academic Xiyue Wang,
37, “has been confirmed and verified” to be “involved in the
infiltration project.”
The spokesman claimed: “Before his
arrest he was able to digitally archive 4,500 pages of the country’s
documents while under covert surveillance, ” and added that Wang had
gathered highly confidential articles
for U.S. and British institutions including the U.S. State Department,
Princeton University, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the British
Institute of Persian Studies.
READ MORE....
