Published in ScienceInsider, 22 Sep 2011
A doctoral student at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, who has been detained for months in his native Iran on espionage charges will go on trial on 4 October, according to sources close to the student.
Omid Kokabee, who was working toward a Ph.D. in optics, was arrested at a Tehran airport while on vacation in Iran in late January or early February. He had been due to appear in court on 16 July on charges of “illegal earnings” and “communicating with a hostile government,” but officials cancelled his trial at the last minute. […]
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