Princeton Student Wang Xiyue Imprisoned in Iran

Princeton researcher Xiyue Wang

Family photo of Wang Xiyue and wife Hua Qu in Beihai Park, Beijing, China.

Wang Xiyue with his wife, Hua Qu, at home

Xiyue Wang, a naturalized American citizen from China who was arrested in Iran in August 2016 while researching his doctoral thesis at Princeton University, is shown with his wife and son in in Princeton, N.J.

Wang Xiyue in Princeton Museum of Art

FILE - Xiyue Wang shown in Hong Kong in this 2009 photo released by a friend. Princeton University professor Stephen Kotkin, who advised Wang, a Chinese-American researcher sentenced to prison in Iran, said his former student is innocent.

Young Wang Xiyue studies at home in Beijing, China.

Wang Xiyue