Azmi Sharom Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/azmi-sharom/ 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. Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:54:18 +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 Azmi Sharom Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/azmi-sharom/ 32 32 59910430 Highlights of 2014 Cases https://concernedscientists.org/2014/11/highlights-of-2014-cases/ Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:45:20 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3828 We continued to advocate in 2014 on behalf of scientists, academics and doctors. The following are highlights of our cases so far. Unfortunately, Professor Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison for his support of China’s Uighur minority. In Iran, Hamid Babaei, an engineering student in Belgium, was sentenced to six years in prison, […]

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]]> 3828 Malaysian Law Professor’s Remarks On Crisis Lead to Sedition Charges https://concernedscientists.org/2014/10/malaysian-law-professors-remarks-on-crisis-lead-to-sedition-charges/ Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:17:13 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3687 Azmi Sharom, an associate professor of law at the University of Malaysia Faculty of Law compared an ongoing political crisis to a situation in 2009 and criticised the secrecy with which the issue was treated. He is being prosecuted for sedition. CCS requested that to the extent his statements were made in respect to his […]

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