Kylie Moore-Gilbert, British/Australian Academic Transferred from Evin Prison In Iran to Far More Severe Facility in Remote Location
New York Times, by Ellen Peltier, July 28, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/europe/british-australian-academic-jail-iran-qarchak.html Academics have provided a petition for other academics to sign in Kylie's behalf. Please support her by adding your name: https://freekylie.net/index.php/academic-petition-2/ ... Continue Reading>>
2018 APS Andrei Sakharov Prize Winner Has Tested Positive for the COVID Virus While Incarcerated in an Iranian Prison
Narges Mohammedi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who has been confined in Iranian prisons since May 2015, serving a 16-year sentence, requested temporary release or sentence remission due to the abundance of inmates with Covid-19 in the prison. She was denied release in March, when over 100,000 detainees were granted temporary release. In July, she and several of her cellmates ... Continue Reading>>
Ahmadreza Djalali Is Dying in Prison in Iran
Editorial Note by the Editor in Chief of the Cambridge Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine/article/ahmadreza-djalali-md-phd-is-dying/D655A93377D6225ADEFA229E74831644/core-reader ... Continue Reading>>
CCS Expresses Concern About Harassment of Scientists Working on COVID-19
The Committee of Concerned Scientists is an independent organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars that has been working, since 1972, on the advancement of human rights and scientific freedom for our colleagues all over the world. At this time of great international effort on the containment of COVID-19, we are concerned with the politicization of the response to the pandemic ... Continue Reading>>
Iranian Anthropologist Sentenced to Six Years in Prison on Vague Charges Suffering from Severe Health Problems
On vague, seemingly politically motivated charges, 60-year-old Iranian Anthropologist sentenced to six years in Prison. Adelkhah has been studying in France for the past 40 years and is seen as an expert on Iran and Shi’ite Islam. At Sciences Po University she is the Director of Research at the Center for International Studies. In June 2019 she was arrested in Iran while visiting her family and ... Continue Reading>>
International Astronomy Olympiad Winner Jailed in Iran
Ali Younesi, a Computer Science Student at Sharif Industrial University in Tehran was arrested for unknown reasons on April 10th along with award winning Physics student, Amir-Hossein Moradi. CCS has written the Chief Justice of Iran inquiring of their charge and current status. A group of Nobel prize winners has also written to The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights to address ... Continue Reading>>
Australian Academic Still In Solitary Confinement In Iranian Prison After Large Prisoner Release
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, researcher in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, is being held in solitary confinement and sentenced to 10-years in prison, allegedly for espionage, which she has denied. While tens of thousands of prisoners have been released, due to threat of Covid-19, Moore-Gilbert is being retained. CCS has written the letter below to the Prime Minister of Australia as her ... Continue Reading>>
Narges Mohammadi Remains in Jail Despite Iranian Prisoner Releases
At the end of last year Iranian physicist, engineer, and human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, serving a 16-year-prison sentence for establishing an organization dedicated to abolishing the death penalty in Iran, was transferred to a prison in the city of Zanjan. In March, a letter from her mother, Ozra Bazarganm, to Iran’s Chief Justice revealed that Narges Mohammadi has continued to face ill ... Continue Reading>>
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian Human Rights Lawyer, Writes A Plea for Peace from Evin Prison , on International Women’s Day
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer was sentenced in 2018 to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for a variety of offenses, including 12 years for “promoting immorality and indecency.” Her legal work has included litigation opposing death sentences and the imprisonment of girls, as young as 9, for not wearing a hijab. She was first jailed for this work in 2010, and then in ... Continue Reading>>