covid Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/covid/ 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 03:27:12 +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 covid Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/covid/ 32 32 59910430 2018 APS Andrei Sakharov Prize Winner Has Tested Positive for the COVID Virus While Incarcerated in an Iranian Prison https://concernedscientists.org/2020/07/2018-aps-andrei-sakharov-prize-winner-has-tested-positive-for-the-covid-virus-while-incarcerated-in-an-iranian-prison/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:40:25 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8542 Narges Mohammedi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who has been confined in Iranian prisons since May 2015, serving a 16-year sentence, requested temporary release or sentence remission due to the abundance of inmates with Covid-19 in the prison. She was denied release in March, when over 100,000 detainees were granted temporary release. […]

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