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Mr. Li is one of several Chinese-born scholars, now American citizens or permanent residents, detained on security charges in recent months in what Western experts fear is a deliberate strategy to intimidate the burgeoning group of Chinese with degrees abroad.

He was arrested in 2006 on security charges and was released in December 2007 after 18 months in prison.

Formal arrest on security charges, in the Chinese criminal system, is a major step toward a secret trial and virtually certain conviction, with a long prison sentence possible.

Thirteen months of that time he spent fighting a dismissal on security charges that originated with an accuser who was never identified.

Shortly after, in a move widely seen as retaliation for Meng's arrest, Chinese authorities detained two Canadians, including a former diplomat, on security charges.

It is unclear why the guards arrested Zaghari-Ratcliffe, but the Iranian authorities have deep suspicion of dual-nationals and in recent years have held a number of them on security charges.

Sotoudeh said Iranian authorities are holding many civil and political activists on bogus security charges.

They face trial and long prison sentences on bogus "security" charges that are completely unsubstantiated.

The writer, Gheyret Niyaz, was also convicted on state security charges, although his most egregious crime appears to have been giving an interview to a Hong Kong publication.

Friends of Mr. Zhao speculated that his arrest on serious security charges was in retaliation for the article, but the authorities have never said so.

In the weeks since, Chinese authorities have seized two Canadians on national security charges, although they have denied the detentions were politically motivated.