Houman Jowkar Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/houman-jowkar/ 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. Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:52:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Houman Jowkar Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/houman-jowkar/ 32 32 59910430 Asiatic Cheetah Researchers Sentenced in Iranian Court for Allegedly “Spying” https://concernedscientists.org/2019/11/asiatic-cheetah-researchers-sentenced-in-iranian-court-for-allegedly-spying/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:52:29 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7701 Eight researchers, employees of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (“PWHF”), a nonprofit conservation organization, were arrested in January 2018 and charged with spying. In November 2019 they were found guilty and sentenced to jail terms ranging from six to ten years in prison. The conservationists were tracking cheetahs with camera traps, a typical way to […]

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]]> 7701 Environmentalists in Iran Arrested for Use of Standard Equipment, Charged as Spies https://concernedscientists.org/2018/12/environmentalists-in-iran-arrested-for-use-of-standard-equipment-charged-as-spies/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:24:13 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7271 Taher Ghadirian and Houman Jowkar serve on the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Morad Tahbaz and Niloufar Bayani are widely respected conservation scientists. All of these work with the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation and were arrested in January and could face execution for their work. In addition, five other scientists were previously arrested, and […]

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]]> 7271 Four Conservation Scientists Arrested In Iran Charged with Capital Offenses https://concernedscientists.org/2018/11/four-conservation-scientists-arrested-in-iran-charged-with-capital-offenses/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:27:48 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7212 Taher Ghadirian, Houman Jowkar, Morad Tahbaz and Niloufar Bayani were charged with capital offenses, that could result in their execution, for their work monitoring rare and disappearing whildlife using camera traps. Two of the three scientists serve on the International Union for Conservation of Nature, all four are widely respected. Five other scientists were similarly […]

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