Three years and one day after her husband was detained in Iran, Hua Qu issued a plea for President Trump and the international community to help free him
"I implore Iran, the United States, my home country China and other members of the international community to secure the release of this innocent man, Xiyue Wang, and make our family whole again," she said Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University PhD student, was in Tehran doing research when he was arrested on espionage charges in August 2016. He was sent to Iran's notorious Evin Prison and sentenced to 10 years.
Qu said she had requested a meeting with"senior leadership," but didn't receive a response. The White House did not immediately reply for a request for comment on Wang's case.State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said Thursday,"We are going to continue, every day that we all draw breath here at the State Department, to fight for our Americans, to get our American hostages back." Xiyue Wang and his son Shaofan are seen in this undated photo.
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