In late August, 2016, three weeks after her husband, Xiyue Wang, disappeared in Iran, Hua Qu received a telephone call. She heard a prerecorded announcement in Farsi: “Dear caller, this is a phone ...

Until his release in December, American student Xiyue Wang spent more than three years behind bars in Iran — not because Iranian authorities hoped to glean any information from him, he says, but ...

Xiyue Wang, 38, was released in Switzerland in exchange for Iranian citizen Massoud Soleimani, who was being held in an Atlanta jail over accusations he violated U.S. sanctions.

On the third anniversary of Xiyue Wang’s detainment in Iran, Wang’s wife, Hua Qu, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., urging the Trump administration and the international community ...

Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang, freed today by his captors, languished in an Iranian jail nearly three times longer than the Americans involved in the Iranian hostage crisis 40 years ...

President Christopher L. Eisgruber issued this statement following the release of graduate student Xiyue Wang, who had been held in Iran since 2016: "The entire Princeton University community is ...

Kori Schake, director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), announced today that Wang Xiyue is joining AEI as a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow. The Jeane ...

Xiyue Wang GS and his wife Hua Qu GS ’21 filed suit against Princeton in November 2021, alleging the University caused him “severe personal injuries and other irreparable harm” through “grossly ...