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>>
Trial Set to Begin in Iran For French Academic
French Anthropologist remains in jail awaiting trial. Her partner has now been released and the charges against her have diminished, with one being dropped. ... Continue Reading>>
CCS Suggests Iran Free Ahmadreza Djalali to Work on Coronavirus Problem
March 18, 2020 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o Majid Takht-Revanche, Ambassador Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, P.O. Box: 20432 New York, NY 10017 Email: mailto:iran@un.int, Fax: 212-687-2020 Your Excellency Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The Committee of Concerned Scientists is ... Continue Reading>>
Conservationist Depicts Iranian Prison Conditions In Letters Sent to Media
Niloufar Bayani is a widely respected conservation scientist who works at 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 of ... Continue Reading>>
Espionage Charges Dropped Against French-Iranian Scholar
One of the charges against Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian researcher in Anthropology and Social Sciences, was dismissed - that of Espionage. Dr. Adelkhah was arrested in June 2019 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps for spying. They have also, according to her attorney, dismissed the charge “of disturbing the public order.” However, there are still two remaining charges - “spreading ... Continue Reading>>