Ajak Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/ajak/ 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. Thu, 10 Jun 2021 03:28:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ajak Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/ajak/ 32 32 59910430 Cambridge Student Detained in South Sudan Pardoned and Released https://concernedscientists.org/2020/01/cambridge-student-detained-in-south-sudan-pardoned-and-released/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:43:53 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7829 Peter Biar Ajak, a Ph.D. student who was critical of his country’s government was arrested in July 2018 in South Sudan. He was sentenced to two years in prison. Mr. Ajak was one of the country’s “Lost Boys” who was resettled in America and had studied at Lasalle University in Philadelphia, then Harvard and then […]

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]]> 7829 Harvard Educated Economist Re-Arrested and Sentenced to Two Years in Prison in South Sudan For Interviewing with the Voice of America https://concernedscientists.org/2019/08/harvard-educated-economist-re-arrested-and-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-in-south-sudan-for-interviewing-with-the-voice-of-america/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:27:32 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7539 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 […]

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]]> 7539 Student and Community Activist Arrested in South Sudan https://concernedscientists.org/2018/08/student-and-community-activist-arrested-in-south-sudan/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:09:50 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=7114 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 […]

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