article_snippet.sent: A Chinese-born American geologist was deported and returned to A Chinese-born American geologist Texas home following A Chinese-born American geologist release from prison in China after serving nearly eight years on charges of 'illegally procuring state secrets'.
article_snippet.sent: Prison Beijing's No. 2 Prison .
article_snippet.sent: Xue Min was detained in November of 2007 and sentenced in 2010 on charges of illegally gathering information on China's oil industry.
article_snippet.sent: Xue Min case raised questions about whether normal business activities elsewhere might conflict with China's vague state security laws.
article_snippet.sent: Supporters also said Xue Min was physically abused in detention and denied proper legal rights.
article_snippet.sent: American diplomats had lobbied hard for Xue Min's release, saying Xue Min alleged crimes didn't warrant the harshness of Xue Min sentence.
article_snippet.sent: Tong Wei, the lawyer for the jailed American geologist, seen leaving Beijing High People's Court in 2011 .
article_snippet.sent: President Obama personally lobbied for Xue's release during a visit to Beijing in November of 2009, the New York Times reported.
article_snippet.sent: After a court upheld Xue Min's conviction in February of 2011, American ambassador Jon Huntsman said: 'This has been a long, difficult and painful ordeal for Xue Feng, but not only for Xue Min but also for Xue Min wife, Nan, and Xue Min two kids. '
article_snippet.sent: We ask the Chinese government to consider an immediate humanitarian parole of Xue Feng, thereby allowing an immediate humanitarian parole of Xue Feng to get back to an immediate humanitarian parole of Xue Feng family and an immediate humanitarian parole of Xue Feng way of life.'
article_snippet.sent: IHS Inc. In pronouncing Xue Min guilty, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said Xue Min actions 'endangered China's national security'.
article_snippet.sent: The verdict said Xue Min received documents on geological conditions of onshore oil wells and a database that gave the coordinates of more than 30,000 oil and gas wells belonging to China National Petroleum Corp. and listed subsidiary PetroChina Ltd.
highlights_snippet.sent: Detained in November 2007 on charges of 'illegally procuring state secrets'
  Convicted in 2010 of illegally gathering information on China's oil industry .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: President Obama personally lobbied for release during 2009 Beijing visit .