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| China sentences US geologist |
| China sentences US geologist to 8 years
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-July-2010
1:29:58 AM |
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Rebuffing the United States government’s appeals for leniency, a Beijing court on Monday sentenced a naturalised American citizen to eight years in prison on charges that his purchase of a database on China’s oil industry broke state secrecy laws.
Xue Feng, a geologist, has spent more than two-and-a-half years in jail since his detention, and had complained to outsiders seeking his release that his captors had tortured him by pressing lighted cigarettes into his arms and hitting him with an ashtray.
American consular officials have visited Xue nearly 30 times during his detention, and US President Barack Obama raised the case with President Hu Jintao during a state visit to Beijing last November. The American ambassador to China, Jon M Huntsman Jr, was in the Beijing courtroom when the sentence was handed down on Monday.
“Now that the Chinese legal system has ruled, I believe the time has come for Dr Xue, who has already been detained for two and a half years, to be released,” Huntsman said in a statement. “I urge the Chinese authorities to take into account the long ordeal he has suffered and in the spirit of justice allow him to be return home and be reunited with his family.”
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