Espionage Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/espionage/ 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. Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:16:48 +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 Espionage Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/espionage/ 32 32 59910430 Former Chinese Diplomat, and Academic with Australian Citizenship, Who Was Visiting Scholar at The University of Columbia in New York, Confined in Chinese Jail Since January 2019 https://concernedscientists.org/2020/05/former-chinese-diplomat-and-academic-with-australian-citizenship-who-was-visiting-scholar-at-the-university-of-columbia-in-new-york-confined-in-chinese-jail-since-january-2019/ Sun, 03 May 2020 18:38:19 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7909 Yang Hengjun has been in Chinese custody since January 2019 charged and prosecuted for espionage. Reports indicate he has been tortured and in isolation and barred from visits from Australian government officials. He is in fragile health and his wife has been denied travel privileges out of China. CCS has written the President of China […]

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]]> 7909 Conservationist Depicts Iranian Prison Conditions In Letters Sent to Media https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/conservationist-depicts-iranian-prison-conditions-in-letters-sent-to-media/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:47:53 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7860 Niloufar Bayani is a widely respected conservation scientist who works at the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. She received a Master’s in conservation biology from Columbia University in 2012, and then worked for the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva before joining the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation in 2017. She and eight colleagues were arrested in […]

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]]> 7860 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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]]> 7856 Australian-British Lecturer Describes Incarceration In Iran Through Series of Letters https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/australian-british-lecturer-describes-incarceration-in-iran-through-series-of-letters/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 01:50:04 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7840 Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British lecturer on Islamic Studies at Melbourne University in Australia where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2017. She was arrested in Iran in September 2018 while conducting field research. She was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison on unknown charges that are rumored to be related to […]

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]]> 7840 British-Australian Lecturer Has Been Held in Iranian Prison for Past Year Convicted of Espionage https://concernedscientists.org/2019/09/british-australian-lecturer-has-been-held-in-iranian-prison-for-past-year-convicted-of-espionage/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:56:52 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7568 Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Studies Institute, was arrested in Iran and charged with espionage. She has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. This week it was revealed that a British-Australian academic who had been teaching at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute in Australia was arrested in Iran […]

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]]> 7568 Swedish Physician/Lecturer in Prison in Iran Very Ill https://concernedscientists.org/2019/01/swedish-physician-lecturer-in-prison-in-iran-very-ill/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:19:36 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7330 Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden and citizen of Iran, was arrested for espionage, unfairly tried and sentenced to death for spying for Israel. He had surgery earlier in the year, was not given time to recuperate and is now gravely ill. CCS has written The Acting Minister of Health and Medical Education in […]

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]]> 7330 Ahmadreza Djalali Writes Supporters Pleading for Their Continued Advocacy. Physical Condition In Prison Deteriorating. https://concernedscientists.org/2018/05/ahmadreza-djalali-writes-supporters-pleading-for-their-continued-advocacy-physical-condition-in-prison-deteriorating/ Thu, 10 May 2018 18:15:14 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6910 Ahmadreza Djalali, emergency and disaster medicine physician and lecturer, is still confined in a prison in Iran awaiting execution (or a reversal of his sentence).  He came, by invitation, to lecture university students when he was arrested and accused of spying.  The trial was unusual, he was initially banned from seeing family or an attorney; […]

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]]> 6910 Princeton Graduate Student Sentenced to 10 Years in Iran While Conducting Thesis Research https://concernedscientists.org/2017/08/princeton-graduate-student-sentenced-to-10-years-in-iran-while-conducting-thesis-research/ Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:06:47 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6254 Xiyue Wang, a Chinese graduate student and American citizen attending Princeton was conducting research for his doctoral thesis in Iran when he was arrested and charged with espionage.  Wang was loading documents on the 19th and 20th century eurasian history researching the Qajar dynasty.  However, the authorities in Iran thought he was a CIA agent […]

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