Professor Ismail Kul was arrested in August 2016 for allegedly participating in the attempted coup of July 2016, and imprisoned for 18 months. The Turkish authorities released him in January 2018, six months after evidence of his innocence came out. He is still barred from traveling, and, in particular, from returning to his home in the US, and resuming his work as a Chemistry professor at Widener ... Continue Reading>>
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Chinese Born US Citizen and Student at Princeton University Still Detained in Evin Prison in Iran
Xiyue Wang, a graduate student at Princeton University, has now been incarcerated in Iran’s Evin prison for over three years. He was jailed in 2016, convicted of spying and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was in Iran conducting pre-approved research on his Ph.D. dissertation when he was apprehended. CCS is writing the President of the People’s Republic of China requesting his assistance in ... Continue Reading>>
Harvard Educated Economist Re-Arrested and Sentenced to Two Years in Prison in South Sudan For Interviewing with the Voice of America
Peter Ajak, an economist and political activist, was falsely arrested in July 2018 for treason and detained for eight months after which time the charges were dropped and he was released. He was immediately re-arrested and charged with inciting public violence while in prison for giving an interview to the Voice of America in an effort to quell a prison riot. He was sentenced to two years in ... Continue Reading>>
Head of National Institute for Space Research in Brazil Terminated for Reporting Amazon Deforestation Findings
Ricardo Magnus Osorio Galvao, head of the National Institute for Space Research and a well known and respected physicist was terminated and accused of lying by the President. CCS has written his former boss and a former astronaut requesting further information on the dismissal of Galvao. August 24, 2019 Marcos Cesar Pontes Ministério da Ciência, Technology, Inovações e ... Continue Reading>>
CCS Encourages US Congressmen to Advocate for Release of Serkan Golge from Turkey with Charges Dropped
NASA Scientist, U.S. citizen, Serkan Golge who was wrongly accused of participating in the attempted coup in Turkey, was released from prison recently, but is still required to wear an ankle monitor and report to the police four days a week. His charges were never dropped, his passport was not returned, and he is not free to leave Turkey. CCS is writing to Congresmen Lankford, Wicker, Cardin, ... Continue Reading>>
On July 30, Gregory Cherlin, Member of the CCS Advisory Board, Attended the Court Hearing in Turkey for the Case of a Turkish-French Mathematician, Tuna Altinel. Here is Prof. Cherlin’s Report on the Hearing.
Worldwide Alert: Medical Doctor, Ahmadreza Djalali, Who Was Sentenced to Death in Iran in 2017, Taken from Prison Cell to Undisclosed Location
On July 29, Ahmadreza Djalali, dual citizen of Iran and Sweden, sentenced to death on a bogus charge of “cooperation with hostile government” in 2017, was taken out of Evin prison in Tehran to an isolated cell at an undisclosed location. Djalali was blindfolded before the relocation and the purpose for this is unknown. Director of European Projects on Disaster Medicine, Djalali was arrested by ... Continue Reading>>
Mathematician Tuna Altinel, Imprisoned in Turkey on Bogus Charges, Has Been Released From Prison
Tuna Altinel, Professor of Mathematics at Lyon 1 University in France, arrested in Turkey on May 11, 2019, on bogus charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, has been released from prison after his hearing today, which was attended by politicians, journalists, and academics: Release Verdict for Academic for Peace Tuna Altınel ... Continue Reading>>
Iranian Anthropologist, Living in France, Arrested In Iran For Unspecified Reasons While Visiting Family
Fariba Adelkhah, a 60 year-old Anthropologist, based at the Paris Institute of Political Studies where she is the Director of Research at the Center for International Studies, was arrested in Iran on June 7th while visiting family. Adelkhah has been studying and teaching in France for over 40 years. Reasons for her arrest have not been made public as yet. CCS has written the Chief Justice of ... Continue Reading>>
Turkish Constitutional Court Ruled that Charges Against Academics for Peace Violated Their Freedom of Expression
Ten Academics for Peace who, in 2016, signed the petition entitled “We Will Not Be a Party To This Crime,” criticizing government actions in the southeast of the country, have been acquitted of charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”. The Court also ruled to pay reparations to wrongly convicted academics. Retrials based upon the ruling of the Constitutional Court have been advised ... Continue Reading>>