Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Physicist and human rights advocate was again rushed to a hospital for emergency care while serving an 18-year sentence for her work advocating for women’s rights in Iran. On July 3 Mohammadi had gallbladder surgery and was taken back to prison. A few days later she began having convulsions and seizures and was taken back to the hospital. CCS has written President ... Continue Reading>>
Oxford Doctoral Student Arrested in Iran for Unspecified Reasons
Mohammadreza Jalaleipour, a 34-year-old Ph.D. Student at Oxford University was arrested in Iran on April 18, 2018. He has had brief phone calls to his family, and no access to an attorney. The cause is unknown at this time. In 2009 Jalaeipour was detained for several months following the presidential election but was never prosecuted. Of concern is that Jalaleipour’s father is a member of the ... Continue Reading>>
Human Rights Groups Write United Nations Rapporteurs Requesting Review of Djalali Case
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali is still sentenced to death in Iran for espionage, according to the Iranian authorities. Many human rights organizations have written directly to the Ayatollah and the President requesting dismissal of his case and his release. Many have now requested the United Nations Special Rapporteurs intercede on his behalf and at a minimum dismiss the death sentence he faces. CCS’ ... Continue Reading>>
Iranian Politial Scientist Arrested for Comments Made During Public Interview
Sadegh Zibakalam, a political scientist at the University of Tehran and Islamic Azad University was arrested following a January 2018 interview regarding the December 2017 protests. He was interviewed by the Deutsche Welle Persian Service, a broadcaster that has been banned in Iran. This interview led to an 18 month sentence for “spreading propaganda against the establishment and the dissemination ... Continue Reading>>
Ahmadreza Djalali Writes Supporters Pleading for Their Continued Advocacy. Physical Condition In Prison Deteriorating.
Ahmadreza Djalali, emergency and disaster medicine physician and lecturer, is still confined in a prison in Iran awaiting execution (or a reversal of his sentence). He came, by invitation, to lecture university students when he was arrested and accused of spying. The trial was unusual, he was initially banned from seeing family or an attorney; and during the trial was allegedly not allowed to ... Continue Reading>>
British-Iranian Citizen Detained In Iran for “Security Charges”
On April 15, 2018, Abbas Edalat, a computer scientist and mathematics professor at the Imperial College in London, England, was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. He has been accused of being one of a group of British spies. There has, however, been no information presented substantiating such a claim. Professor Edalat is a vocal opponent of economic sanctions against Iran. ... Continue Reading>>
2018 Sakharov Prize Winner Sends Speech to the American Physical Society Ceremony
Narges Mohammadi, the recipient of the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize, sent her acceptance speech to the Conference when it was awarded to her on April 15, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio by the American Physical Society. She was unable to attend, as she is still confined in an Iranian prison. Mohammadi was dismissed from her job and imprisoned for advocating for women's and human rights. Mohammadi has ... Continue Reading>>
Ahmadreza Djalali Writes Plea to Iranian International Deputy for Chief Justice Secretary of High Council for Human Rights
Dr. Djalali, a physician and academician in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, has written to Mohammad-Javad Larijani requesting that he review his case, review all of the documents presented, meet with the defense witnesses and withdraw the charge of "Seditious on Ground," and remove the death penalty that was handed down by Judge Salavati. The letter sent to Dr. Larijani follows: To the ... Continue Reading>>
Ahmadreza Djalali, Swedish Physician/Lecturer, Sends Letter to President Rouhani Denying Guilt
To the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, This is Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher and lecturer affiliated to universities in Sweden, Italy and Belgium, who is detained in Iran by the Ministry of Intelligence since April 2016. Firstly, I was accused of having a relation with an enemy country, and then through an unjust, illegal, anti-Islamic and ... Continue Reading>>
Kavous Seyed Emami, an Iranian-Canadian Environmentalist, Dies in Tehran Prison
Kavous Seyed Emami, an environmentalist, professor of sociology at Tehran's Imam Sadegh University and Founder of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (Iran's most prominent non-governmental organization focussed on the environment) was arrested on January 24th by intelligence agents, along with several other environmental activists and charged with espionage. His wife received a phone ... Continue Reading>>