GENEVA (7 May 2019) ‑ UN experts firmly request Iran to immediately release American academic Xiyue Wang, whose arbitrary detention for nearly three years was a clear violation of fundamental rights guaranteed under international law, they said. Wang, a doctoral student at Princeton University and an American citizen born in China, was arrested in August 2016 in Iran, where he was researching for his PhD on Eurasian history. In July 2017, the Revolutionary Court found Wang guilty of espionage and “collaboration” and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment, in a…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 08 May 2019. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
