historian Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/historian/ 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 historian Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/historian/ 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 Prominent Historian at the History Research Department of the Academy of Social Sciences of Xinjiang Arrested, Cause Unknown, Whereabouts Unknown https://concernedscientists.org/2019/04/prominent-historian-at-the-history-research-department-of-the-academy-of-social-sciences-of-xinjiang-arrested-cause-unknown-whereabouts-unknown/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:52:19 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7385 Dr. Askar Yunus, a prominent Kyrgyz Historian was arrested in late November 2018. We are unaware of the reason for his arrest nor his whereabouts. To the best or our knowledge he has not been charged with a criminal offense, been allowed to see his family members, nor seek representation by an attorney. CCS has […]

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