Source: physicsworld
UPDATE July 21, 2011: Omid Kokabee’s trial has been postponed to an unspecified date, according to friends.
A doctoral student who was detained when he tried to leave his native Iran earlier this year will go on trial tomorrow for charges related to espionage, according to sources close to him.
Omid Kokabee has been detained since late January or February this year when he was attempting to fly from Tehran airport to return to his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, US. Physics World understands that he is suspected of leaking Iranian scientific information and working with the CIA.
The trial, apparently based on charges of illegal earnings and communicating with a hostile government, is expected to be headed by Iranian justice Abolghasem Salavati.