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Turkish Doctoral Student and Political Activist Studying in Canada Detained in Turkey for Unspecified Charges
Tuna Altinel, French Professor, Acquitted of All Charges and Released By Turkish Court But Passport Still Withheld
Mustafa Ali Hassanien, Student at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Arrested in Egypt, Accused of Membership in Terrorist Organization, Spreading False News and Disturbing Public Security.
Anthropologist, Fariba Adelkhah, Temporarily Released from Iranian Prison
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>>
Narges Mohammadi, Physicist and Human Rights Defender, imprisoned in Iran Released with Sentence Commuted.
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>>
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov
a physicist, Soviet dissident, and human rights activist who co-founded the Moscow Helsinki Group and established a section of Amnesty International in the Soviet Union, passed away on September 27, 2020 at the age of 96. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/world/europe/yuri-orlov-dead.html ... Continue Reading>>
Teacher At Belarusian State University Sentenced to 12 Days in Prison for Protest Attendance
Dr. Alexander Tykun was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 days in an undisclosed location after a trial which neither his wife nor his lawyer were allowed to attend. ... Continue Reading>>
Awarded 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Congratulations to CCS Co-Chair Joel Lebowitz on the 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics by the American Physical Society! Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers University ... Continue Reading>>