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Ahmadreza Djalali Is Dying in Prison in Iran
Editorial Note by the Editor in Chief of the Cambridge Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine/article/ahmadreza-djalali-md-phd-is-dying/D655A93377D6225ADEFA229E74831644/core-reader ... Continue Reading>>
CCS Suggests Iran Free Ahmadreza Djalali to Work on Coronavirus Problem
March 18, 2020 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o Majid Takht-Revanche, Ambassador Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, P.O. Box: 20432 New York, NY 10017 Email: mailto:iran@un.int, Fax: 212-687-2020 Your Excellency Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The Committee of Concerned Scientists is ... Continue Reading>>
Hafeez Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy Charge
A gifted scholar was arrested for Blasphemy in Pakistan and spent six years in jail awaiting trial. His first attorney was threatened in open court by the prosecutor, saying he would not live for the next hearing. Shortly, thereafter, an assassin entered his office and killed him. Following the murder, getting a new attorney to take the case was difficult, and getting a judge to hear the case ... Continue Reading>>
Serkan Golge and Ismail Kul Released But Still Not Home
Two American academics that were released from prison in Turkey, after being imprisoned for charges they did not commit, are still not allowed to depart Turkey to return home. Serkan Golge, a former NASA scientist, and Ismail Kul, a professor at Widener College in Pennsylvania, have been released from prison but Turkish officials continue to withhold their passports and require them to report to ... Continue Reading>>
US/Iran Swap Prisoners – Academic and Scientist Free’d
Thanks to the work of the Swiss Embassy, the American State Department and the Administrations of the United States and Iran, Xiyue Wang, a researcher and history student at Princeton who was arrested in 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for espionage (charges which he has always denied) and Professor Massoud Soleimani, an Iranian scientist convicted of violating U.S. sanctions and ... Continue Reading>>
Swedish Scientist Incarcerated In Iran Needs Immediate Medical Care
Ahmedreza Djalali, a Swedish scientist/physician/lecturer for emergency and disaster medicine has been sentenced and incarcerated in Iran for allegedly spying. He is, at this time, very ill and in need of emergency medical care. May 25, 2019 Ali Alghasi Mehr Prosecutor General of Tehran Corner (Nabsh-e) of 15 Khordad Square Tehran, Iran Dear Prosecutor General Mehr: The Committee ... Continue Reading>>
On the eve of Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo 121 Nobel Laureates have appealed to the Supreme Leader of Iran, asking Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to interfere personally in the case of the medical doctor Ahmadreza Djalali. Sir Richard Roberts (picture) wrote the letter petitioning for the release and dismissal of charges against Dr. Djalali and 121 former Nobel winners have signed. Dr. Djalali, dual citizen of Iran and Sweden, was sentenced to death in Iran in 2017 on charges disputed by the international community. (Picture provided by the Genetic Literacy Project.)
9th December, 2018 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Via the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10017 Dear Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: In November 2017, and again in February 2018 I wrote on behalf of a consortium of Nobel Laureates about the plight of a ... Continue Reading>>
NASA Scientist Imprisoned in Turkey Scheduled for Court Hearing on September 19, 2018. CCS Requesting Written Support from Members of the International Scientific Community
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>>
*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>>