US calls on China to release jailed geologist
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The United States on Tuesday called on China to release a US geologist jailed on charges of stealing state secrets, but Beijing said other countries had no right to interfere in what it called an internal affair.
Xue Feng, a 44-year-old US citizen born in China, was detained late in 2007 after negotiating the sale of an oil industry database to his employer at the time, Colorado-based consultancy IHS Energy, now known as IHS Inc. The State Department said the United States was extremely concerned about Xue's rights to due process under Chinese law after he was sentenced to eight years in jail, and it called on Beijing to free him. (Reuters)
