Civil Rights Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/civil-rights/ 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. Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:58:52 +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 Civil Rights Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/civil-rights/ 32 32 59910430 Russian Historian Confined For Uncovering Evidence of Killings by The Secret Police Under Stalin https://concernedscientists.org/2020/06/the-arrest-of-scientist-yuri-alexeyevich-dmitriev/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:42:17 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8232 Yuri Dmitriev, an amateur but determined historian, discovered graves containing the remains of political prisoners executed by Stalin’s secret police in a forest at Sandarmokh in Karelia, a peninsula in northern Russia. Dmitriev had been seeking proof for years of Stalin’s victims. In an effort to invalidate Dmitrriev’s work, he was arrested and charged with […]

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]]> 8232 Congress Investigating Targeting of Chinese-American Scientists by NIH and FBI https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/congress-investigating-targeting-of-chinese-american-scientists-by-nih-and-fbi/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:39:25 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7856 On February 20, Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Judy Chu began an investigation into concerns that Chinese-American scientists are being unfairly targeted in espionage investigations. Raskin, who chairs the Subcommittee on Civil Right and Civil Liberties in the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Chu, who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, sent […]

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