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BEIJING — The U.S. Embassy was denied access to an appeal hearing for a U.S. geologist sentenced in July to eight years in prison for buying a database on China’s oil industry, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
Xue Feng was detained three years ago and charged under a vague state-secrets law. He had signed a purchase contract on behalf of an energy consulting company based in Colorado, IHS Energy, for an oil-industry database. U.S. officials were at his first trial.
Denver Post wire services
