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China Restricts On-Line Conferences Hosted By Sponsors Out of the Country

September 2, 2020

China cracks down on foreign-hosted online conferences by Eugene Chudnovsky | September 01, 2020 06:00 AM ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: China, Human Rights Resources, Related Articles Tagged With: Beijing University, COVID-19 pandemic, Eugene Chudnovsky, Tashpolat Tiyip, Xinjiang University

Chemical and Engineering News Print Article by Board Members of CCS on Racial Profiling of Chinese American Scientists/Academics

November 20, 2019

Eugene Chudnovsky and Alexander Greer, two Board members of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, wrote an Opinion piece for the Chemical and Engineering News addressing problems of racial profiling of Chinese American academics and scientists.     LETTERS TO THE EDITOR C&EN: Free academic exchange We would like to expand on “Amid Tensions with China, US Emphasizes ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Board, CCS Cases Tagged With: Alexander Greer, Eugene Chudnovsky

CCS Co-Chair Makes a Presentation for a Congressional Event

March 31, 2019

Dr. Eugene Chudnovsky, one of the CCS Co-Chairs and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Lehman College (NY), spoke at a Congressional Event on March 22, 2019 informing those in attendance, which included several Congresspersons, their staff members, members of the human rights community and the general public, about persons in the academic and scientific community in various countries whose ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Board Tagged With: CCS, Chudnovsky, Eugene, Eugene Chudnovsky, Human Rights, Physics, Professor

Eugene Chudnovsky, Co-Chair of Board, The Committee of Concerned Scientists Participates in Podcast of Scientists v. Power

May 10, 2017

ABC’s Podcast “RN” ran a story by Natasha Mitchell on the impact that  dictatorial rulers have on scientists.  The article interviews several scientists, one of which is CCS’ Board Co-Chair and Professor of Physics, Eugene Chudnovsky.  The article examines scientists who have been locked up for their studies and discoveries dating back from Socrates to a more recent case of a young Iranian ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases Tagged With: Eugene Chudnovsky, Scientists v. Power

Scientist Dying in Prison for Refusing to Help Iran Develop Nuclear Weapons | Washington Examiner

May 2, 2016

Omid Kokabee chained to a hospital bed before cancer surgery

Omid Kokabee’s fate is at the mercy of the Revolutionary Courts, who execute the will of the Supreme Leader, now that he has suffered kidney cancer and had his right kidney removed. Omid Kokabee was recently diagnosed with kidney cancer that required surgery to completely remove his right kidney. Kokabee has been in Evin Prison in Iran since 2011 for failing to cooperate with the Atomic Energy ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Eugene Chudnovsky, Iran, Omid Kokabee

Op-Ed on Omid Kokabee and Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Program

May 20, 2015

Omid Kokabee, a graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran. Human rights, scientific freedom

Iranian physicist Omid Kokabee has been kept in prison since 2011 for his refusal to work on laser enrichment of uranium. Read the op-ed by Eugene Chudnovsky, Distinguished Professor of Physics, City University of New York (CUNY), and CCS Co-chair in The Washington Examiner: On January 30, 2011, Omid Kokabee, 28, was about to board a flight to the United States at Tehran airport. He was returning ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Eugene Chudnovsky, Iran, Omid Kokabee, Scientists, University of Texas at Austin

Kokabee Wins AAAS Award
As Petitions Delivered to Iran

November 4, 2014

Amnesty International and Committee of Concerned Scientists Deliver Kokabee Petitions to Iranian Authorities

The same day as human rights activists delivered 14,000 petition signatures, including 31 by Nobel Physics Laureates, for Omid Kokabee's release, the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded him the prize for Freedom and Scientific Responsibility. Representatives of the human rights organization, including CCS co-chair Eugene Chudnovsky, also met with Iranian officials at the ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Eugene Chudnovsky, Islamic Republic of Iran, Omid Kokabee, Scientists

31 Nobel Physics Laureates Join Iran Petitions For Kokabee

October 23, 2014

Omid Kokabee

As a culmination of efforts to obtain the release of Omid Kokabee, the physics graduate student imprisoned in Iran on unsubstantiated charges, at 10:30 AM Tuesday October 28, the Committee of Concerned Scientists, Amnesty International and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran will deliver thousands of petitions, including the Nobelists' letter, to the Iran UN Mission in New York. ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: American Physical Society, Amnesty International, Eugene Chudnovsky, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Omid Kokabee, Scientists, University of Texas at Austin

Iran’s Human Rights Violations
Detailed in Two Public Presentations

December 12, 2013

The Iranian Flag, flag of Iran

Iran: Silencing Scientists and Squelching Scholarship A November 16, 2013 open meeting in Washington DC Iran: Silencing Scientists and Squelching Scholarship, organized by: Amnesty International, Georgetown University Amnesty International, and the Georgetown University Science and Human Rights Group, was moderated by Jessica Wyndham of the AAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Academics, Amnesty International, Eugene Chudnovsky, Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, New School, Omid Kokabee, Scientists

Iran’s Human Rights Violations Detailed in Two Public Presentations

December 12, 2013

The Iranian Flag, flag of Iran

Iran: Silencing Scientists and Squelching Scholarship A November 16, 2013 open meeting in Washington DC Iran: Silencing Scientists and Squelching Scholarship, organized by: Amnesty International, Georgetown University Amnesty International, and the Georgetown University Science and Human Rights Group, was moderated by Jessica Wyndham of the AAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Academics, Amnesty International, Eugene Chudnovsky, Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, New School, Omid Kokabee, Scientists

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