Serkan Golge, a NASA scientist has been confined in jail in Turkey since July 2016, when he was arrested on a family vacation and accused of being involved with the failed coup attempt that took place in Turkey on July 15, 2016. Golge denied the charges but was sentenced to 7.5 years. Golge has an appeal hearing on September 19, 2018 and CCS is requesting that people in the scientific community ... Continue Reading>>
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Narges Mohammadi Again Rushed to Hospital for Emergency Medical Care
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>>
Student and Community Activist Arrested in South Sudan
Peter Biar Ajak, the first citizen from South Sudan to study at Cambridge, was arrested on July 28th at the Juba airport and detained. Ajak is a Harvard educated economist, a Trinity College, Cambridge University Ph.D. student, an alumnus of the Atlantic Council Millennium Fellowship, a Cambridge Trust scholar. He is a former World Bank economist and currently a senior advisor at the ... Continue Reading>>
*UPDATED* Chinese American Citizen Who Worked for the Weather Bureau Lost Job for Alledgedly Spying for China. Found To Be Untrue. Commerce Refuses to Hire Her Back. Story on 60 Minutes Sunday, August 29 at 7:00 pm
Several Chinese American citizens have been accused of spying for China. They have been found not guilty and their agencies/organizations have refused to reinstate them into their prior position. Dr. Sherry Chen, on appeal, requested her job back. The judge ruled that the situation was egregious and she was to be reinstated, with full pay and benefits. Now the U.S. Department of Commerce has ... Continue Reading>>
Five Attendees at 2017 International Conference on Thai Studies Face Trial Monday, August 20th
The Conference organizer and Associate Professor, Dr. Chayan Vaddhanaphuti; three students: Chaipong Samnieng, Ph.D. Candidate and Lecturer; Teeramon Buangam, MA Candidate and Faculty; Nontawat Machai, undergraduate student, all from Chiang Mai University; and Pakavadi Veerapaspong, independent writer and translator were arrested and will go to court for participating in a political gathering ... Continue Reading>>
NASA Scientist Still Imprisoned in Turkey – Need US Government to Intercede
In July of 2016 during a family vacation, NASA scientist, Dr. Serkan Golge, was arrested in Turkey as he and his family were preparing to return to the United States. He was accused of being affiliated with "FETO," the organization that was suspected, by the President of Turkey, of planning the failed coup attempt that took place on July 15th. Dr. Golge vehemently denied this charge. Since his ... Continue Reading>>
A Very Merry Happy 85th Birthday to Our Very Dear Advisory Board Member, Myriam Sarachik
Myriam Sarachik, famous for her pioneering experiments on the Kondo effect, metal-insulator transitions and spin tunneling, turns 85. She has been an invaluable, long-time CCS Board Member devoted to the human rights of scientists. I encourage everybody to read Myriam’s short autobiography: Pushing Boundaries: My Personal and Scientific Journey. Deeply personal, it encompasses great events that ... Continue Reading>>
Dr. Hatoon Al-Fassi, Associate Professor of Women’s History at King Saud University, Detained for Unknown Reasons
Dr. Hatoon Al-Fassi an Associate Professor of Women’s History at King Saud University and a renowned women’s rights activist has been detained. The reasons for her arrest have not been determined. She is also on a travel ban for unknown reasons. She has not been notified of any charges, a court date and no one has been informed of her whereabouts nor whether she has access to counsel. CCS has ... Continue Reading>>
Prominent Chinese Brain Scientist Denied Visa to Attend U.S. Professional Conference
Dr. Rao Yi, a prominent Chinese brain scientist, who studied in the United States, got his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco; his postdoc at Harvard; was on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis; was a full professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago was denied a visa to attend a conference sponsored by the National ... Continue Reading>>
Professor of Epidemiology, Co-Spokesperson for Peoples’ Democratic Congress, Physician and Active Member of the Turkish Medical Association, Charged with “Making Terrorist Propaganda on Social Media.”
On February 9, 2018 Professor Onur Hamzaoglu was detained, and arrested on February 17. He remains in Sincan Prison in Ankara. In Court on February 16th he was denied bail. His trial is scheduled for July 19th. Hamzaoglu is a professor, medical doctor, active member of the Turkish Medical Association, editor of the Medical Association’s monthly journal and has been a member of the ... Continue Reading>>