The wife of Xiyue Wang, an American serving 10 years on espionage charges in Iran, called Wednesday for President Donald Trump to step up efforts to free him.
Chinese-born Wang, a doctoral candidate in history at Princeton University, was researching Iran's Qajar dynasty when he was imprisoned in August 2016.
"I implore Iran, the US, my own country China and other members of the international community to come together and find a way to secure the release of this innocent man," Wang's wife Hua Qu told a news conference in Washington marking the third anniversary of his arrest.
"This case will not be automatically resolved," she said. "They need to come to the negotiating table, to speak to each other, to engage in a dialogue."
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