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Update: Letter from Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali’s wife, Vida Mehrannia, to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson

June 27, 2025

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Three Students Awaiting Trial for Crime of Supposedly Insulting the President of Türkiye

June 18, 2025

Esila Ayık, Arda Öğüşlü and Mehmet Efe Erdoğan, university students were recently arrested in Türkiye in early April 2025 for allegedly holding up protest signs at a youth concert in İstanbul. The charges involve insulting the presidency and can carry prison sentences of almost up to 5 years. On May 15, 2025, the students were released pending trial. The Committee is concerned that these students ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Turkey Tagged With: Arda Öğüşlü, Esila Ayık, Mehmet Efe Erdoğan

“Science Saved My Life — and It Must Save Other At-Risk Scholars,” an Article by Encieh Erfani

June 3, 2025

In September 2022, during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran — sparked by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — I resigned from my Iranian university position in protest. I was on a research visit to Mexico at the time, and couldn’t return home. Read more on nature.com ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran Tagged With: Encieh Erfani

Defamation Charges Against American Academic Dropped

May 30, 2025

Paul Chambers leaves Thailand after attorney-general rejects police petition for review The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has dropped royal defamation charges against American academic Paul Chambers, citing a lack of evidence. Read more from the Bankok Post ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Thailand Tagged With: Paul Chambers

Lecturer at Thailand’s Naresuan University in Legal Limbo over lèse-majesté Case

May 20, 2025

Paul Chambers, a lecturer of political science at Naresuan University in Thailand, was arrested on charges of lèse-majesté (insulting the monarchy) due an online blurb about his seminar on the Thai military and police in October 2024. He was removed from his position and is not allowed to leave the country even though charges against him were recently dropped by the state prosecutor. The Committee ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Thailand Tagged With: Paul Chambers

Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University Still Unable to Travel to West Africa

May 20, 2025

Dr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University, cannot return to West Africa to continue his historical research for fear of retribution by the Sierra Leone government and its allies. The government appears to be targeting his Africanist Press for exposing alleged corruption and financial crimes. The Committee is asking Secretary Rubio to intervene read more from the ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Sierra Leone Tagged With: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah

Family of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali discuss his life as a father and husband

May 13, 2025

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Filed Under: CCS Cases, Update Tagged With: Ahmadreza Djalali

Indiana University professors terminated without due process

April 20, 2025

Two professors at Indiana University were terminated without due process. Their homes were also raided. Although there was a sealed warrant, it is the understanding of CCS that the termination of the professors did not follow university policies. Read more on Wired Read more on Indiana Daily Student ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, United States Tagged With: Nianli Ma, Xiaofeng Wang

Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University Continues to be Unable to Travel to West Africa

April 9, 2025

Dr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University, cannot return to West Africa to continue his historical research for fear of retribution by the Sierra Leone government and its allies. The government appears to be targeting his Africanist Press for exposing alleged corruption and financial crimes. The Committee is asking Secretary Rubio to intervene. Read on African Press ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Sierra Leone Tagged With: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah

Harvard Medical School researcher detained by ICE

April 2, 2025

Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova, on a J-1 visa, was arrested by CBP and transferred to an ICE detention center in Louisiana. The grounds are that this was due to an undeclared item at the airport, which her research adviser had requested, and for which, at most, a $500 fine is appropriate, as her lawyer has stated. She remains imprisoned, amounting to a violation of her habeas ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, United States Tagged With: Kseniia Petrova

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