Iranian physics grad student sentenced in Tehran
MAY 16, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026041
Nature : Omid Kokabee, who has been imprisoned in Tehran since February 2011, was sentenced on Sunday to 10 years for alleged conspiracy. A graduate student in the physics department at the University of Texas at Austin, Kokabee was reported missing last year when he failed to return to Texas from a trip home to Iran over winter break. Although his friends maintain that no proof was presented at the trial, he was found guilty of “communicating with a hostile government” and “illegal earnings,” writes Michele Catanzaro for Nature. He plans to appeal the sentence.
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