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Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah Still in Prison on Seemingly Fabricated Charges

June 25, 2022

Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, is still in prison for alleged espionage and propaganda charges without clear evidence, despite a reputation for being apolitical. She faces cardiac health problems and should be released on time ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Fariba Adelkhah

Grave Concern that Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, Noted Disaster Preparedness Academic, will be Executed in Iran

May 9, 2022

Noted academic in the field of disaster preparedness, Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested by the Revolutionary Guard, and charged with "corruption on earth" without proper legal procedures. He has suffered in detainment and then prison since late 2016, and his execution is now reportedly set for May 21, ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran

Two Sharif University students held for almost two years on charge of “corruption on earth.”

February 6, 2022

Ali Younesi and Amir Moradi, prizewinning students at Tehran’s Sharif University, have been imprisoned by Iran’s intelligence service and pressured to deliver confessions. https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-younesi-moradi-harsh-treatment/31573907.html ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Ali Youseni, Amir-Hossein Moradi, students

Physicist and Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Eight More Years in Prison and More Than 70 Lashes.

February 5, 2022

Narges Mohammadi, physicist, prominent human rights activist, and recipient of the 2018 Andrei Sakjarov Prize of the American Physical Society, has been sentenced in Iran to eight additional years in prison and more than 70 lashes. The ruling came after a trial that lasted only five minutes. She has also been banned from outside “communications” for the next two years. ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Narges Mohammadi

Ahmadreza Djalali – 2000 Days in the Iranian Prison

October 11, 2021

October 17, 2021 marks 2000 days since Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor, dual citizen of Sweden in Iran, was imprisoned in Tehran. He has been tortured, kept in solitary confinement, and brought to near-death existence. His wife and two children have been severely impacted by that. Djalali worked at the Karolinska Medical University in Stockholm, held research positions in Italy and Belgium, ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran, Prominent Cases, Related Articles Tagged With: Ahmadreza, Chudnovsky, Djalali, Eugene

Conservation Biologist of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation Contracted COVID in Iranian Prison

August 12, 2021

Niloufar Bayani is a widely respected environmental scientist affiliated with the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. She received a Master’s in Conservation Biology from Columbia University in 2012, and then worked for the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva before joining the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation in 2017. She and eight colleagues were arrested in January 2018 and accused ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Conservation Biologist, Niloufar Bayani

Social Anthropolgist With Dual Citizenship Sentenced in Iran on Ambiguous Charges

December 17, 2020

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Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran Tagged With: Ahmady, Anthropologist, British-Iranian, Dueal Citizenship, Kameel Ahmady

Prompted by Reports of the Imminent Execution of a Medical Scholar, Ahmadreza Djalali, 153 Nobel Laureates Appeal to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Urging Him to Intercede on Djalali’s Behalf.

November 24, 2020

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Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran, Petitions Tagged With: Ahmadreza Djalali, Djalali, Execution, Medical Scholar

Anthropologist, Fariba Adelkhah, Temporarily Released from Iranian Prison

November 9, 2020

On vague, seemingly politically motivated charges, 61-year-old Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to six years in prison in May 2020. Adelkhah is an expert on Iran and Shi’ite Islam based in France for the past 40 years, and currently the Director of Research at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po University. On October 3, 2020, she was released to her family in ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, France, Iran Tagged With: Anthropologist, Fariba Adelkhah, Iranian Prison, Po University

Narges Mohammadi, Physicist and Human Rights Defender, imprisoned in Iran Released with Sentence Commuted.

November 9, 2020

Narges Mohammadi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who had been incarcerated in Iranian prisons since May 2015, was released on October 7 when her 16-year sentence was commuted due to health concerns. Her conviction and sentence in May 2016 were based exclusively on her peaceful advocacy for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty. She initially had been denied ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran Tagged With: Case Dismissed, Mohammadi, Narges, Narges Mohammadi, physicist, Women's Rights

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COB of The Swedish Association of Higher Education Institutions and the President of the German Rectors’ Conference Sent Joint Letter for Iran to Lift Death Sentence and Release Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali; Rectors of Brussels Two Universities Concur

April 6, 2021

Condition worsens for Ahmadreza Djalali, Swedish-Iranian Lecturer, sentenced for execution in Iran. Health has badly deteriorated. Is in solitary ... Continue Reading>>

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