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>>
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Physicist and Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Eight More Years in Prison and More Than 70 Lashes.
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>>
English Professor from Delhi University Still Imprisoned Despite Having COVID-19 a Second Time
Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, an English professor at Delhi University, was arrested in 2014 and convicted in 2017 for his peaceful academic activities and purported membership in the Communist Party. He suffers from post-polio syndrome, COVID-19, and numerous other medical conditions, yet he has not been provided with the appropriate medical ... Continue Reading>>
Russian historian of Stalin’s mass graves has two years added to jail sentence
Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev, historian in the Karelia region of Russia, has been imprisoned on trumped-up charges of sexual abuse. These charges appear to be retaliation for his work with the Memorial society to document the human rights violations and mass murders by the Soviet Union under Stalin. Recently, two years have been added to his sentence; and, despite his age, he is being moved to a ... Continue Reading>>
Professor Jalal was arrested by the Taliban
Update: Professor Jalal was arrested by the Taliban on Saturday, January 8. On Tuesday, January 11, his daughter announced that her father had been freed. ... Continue Reading>>
Turkey continues the criminal prosecution of 14 students at Boğaziçi University involved in peaceful protests
Fourteen students at Boğaziçi University are in legal jeopardy for protesting government appointments of new rectors. Two of them, Berke Gok and Perit Ozen, have recently been released pending trial. The other 12 are still detained under harsh conditions. ... Continue Reading>>
The Committee of Concerned Scientists deplores the politically motivated decision of the Russian court to liquidate Memorial — the leading human rights watchdog founded by Russia’s most prominent human rights advocate, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, physicist Andrei Sakharov.
Head of leading Russian university imprisoned for alleged embezzlement
Sergey Eduardovich Zuev, rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES), was arrested on November 9 and is now on trial for allegedly embezzling government funds. Scholars around the world suspect that the charges have been invented to punish MSSES for accepting foreign grants. ... Continue Reading>>
Russian Mathematics PhD student convicted of charges without evidence
Mathematics PhD student Azat Miftakhov has been detained since February 2019 for and recently convicted on charges of manufacture of explosives and breaking a political party window. These charges appear to be based on secret, unreliable witnesses and he has been subjected to torture. https://caseazatmiftakhov.org/2021/11/12/update-on-the-case-of-azat-miftakhov-on-november-12-2021/ ... Continue Reading>>
Russia forces Memorial human rights groups to close.
Russian human rights group International Memorial and its sister organization Human Rights Centre Memorial are being forced to close by Russian prosecutors for supposedly not labeling themselves “foreign agents”. They were founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and have been doing important work on preserving Russian historic documents and monitoring violations of human rights in ... Continue Reading>>