Committee of Concerned Scientists

An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world.

An independent non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world.

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>>

Russia, Again, Arrests Elderly Scientist for Allegedly Leaking Classified Information

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/russia-wages-a-paranoid-war-on-hypersonic-scientists Russia wages a paranoid war on hypersonics scientists by Eugene Chudnovsky | August 14, 2021 07:00 AM Alexander Kuranov, 73, has devoted his life to the study of hypersonic propulsion. His work involved the fundamental physics of plasma and material science, which used to be unclassified and ... Continue Reading>>

Letter to President Putin from a Prominent Russian Human Rights Defender Who Worked Closely with Andrei Sakharov

The request to stop criminal prosecutions for non-violent actions, to release political prisoners!Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation on the eve ofthe Putin-Biden summit in Geneva on June 16June 10, 202To the President of the Russian FederationV.V. PUTINDear Vladimir Vladimirovich!Just now, on May 21 this year, the 100th anniversary of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was celebrated ... Continue Reading>>

Wilson Center Issues Statement in Support of Russian Civil Rights Attorney, Ivan Pavlov, Who Was Recently Arrested

Pavlov has been temporarily released, but has been stripped of his right to defend political prisoners, and may soon become one. The Wilson Center strongly condemns the detention of the Russian lawyer and human rights defender Ivan Pavlov on April 30 and the subsequent raid on his offices. Mr. Pavlov has been a stalwart defender of human rights and the rule of law in Russia for decades. He is a ... Continue Reading>>

Andrei Sakharov’s 100th Anniversary: Boris Altshuler, Human Rights Activist and Former Political Dissident, Who Worked Closely with Sakharov, Shares His Memories (From Altshuler’s Article):

The historic achievement of the Soviet human rights movement of the 1970's is that it managed to turn the attention of the world’s Big Politics to the suffering of individuals. The role of Andrei Sakharov was crucial in this. It was not by chance that in his Nobel Lecture (1975) he listed 127 names of Soviet prisoners of conscience and apologized to those he missed. And surely the pain for every ... Continue Reading>>

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