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65 Year Old Venezuelan Economist, Professor Santiago Guevara,  Arrested for Articles Critical of Government Policies 

May 7, 2017

Professor Santiago Guevara, a 65 year-old Venezuelan Economist, was served a summons by representatives of the Directorate of Military Counterintelligence on February 21st.  He was instructed to report on February 23rd to DGCIM where he was charged before a  military court with “treason,” “incitement to rebellion,” and crimes against the “security and independence of the nation.” Dr. Guevara had ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Venezuela Tagged With: Dr. Santiago Guevara, Human Rights, Venezuela

Committee of Concerned Scientists and Endangered Scholars Worldwide Advocate for NASA Scientist Arrested in Turkey

October 25, 2016

Flag of Turkey, Turkish Flag

NASA Physicist, Serkan Golge, a 36-year old American citizen, was arrested while visiting Turkey and charged as being complicit with the Gulen movement, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization that was complicit with the coup attempt that took place in July.  The Committee of Concerned Scientists and Endangered Scholars Worldwide have issued a Joint Appeal asking for Golge’s release and ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Human Rights, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Scientists, Serkan Golge

URGENT ACTION: Tweet Storm in Support of Physicist and Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi

July 11, 2016

Narges Mohammadi

CCS requests that you participate in this campaign. On 11 July, Narges Mohammadi enters her third week of hunger strike, which she began on Monday 27 June to protest the judicial authorities’ persistent refusal to allow her telephone contact with her nine-year-old twins. Her children had to move abroad one year ago to live with their father, as there was nobody to look after them in Iran ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: Defenders of Human Rights Center, Human Rights, Narges Mohammadi, Twitter

Turkey Continues to Question, Detain, Arrest, and Terminate Employment of Academics That Signed Peace Petition

July 5, 2016

Flag of Turkey, Turkish Flag

To date, the Turkish authorities have terminated the employment, requested resignations, failed to renew contracts or sent files to the Higher Educational Council of 91 Turkish academics. 513 face disciplinary action resulting in temporary suspensions, and legal process have been initiated against 418. The numbers are continually growing. CCS has written to the Turkish authorities requesting ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Academics, Çetin Gürer, Dilşa Deniz, Ekrem Düzen, Halil İbrahim Yenigün, Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Melih Kırlıdoğ, Muzaffer Kaya, Nil Mutluer, Selim Eyüpoğlu, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Zeynep Sayın Balıkçıoğlu

Public Support Solicited for Masaud Jahromi, Former Department Chair at Ahlia University

May 2, 2016

Masaud Jahromi, deported from Bahrain, human rights

Dr. Jack Minker, CCS Vice Chair for Computer Science, has authored a letter to the editor in the May 2016 Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) explaining Dr. Masaud Jahromi’s legal situation. Minker also requested assistance for job and residential placement. CCS has been advocating for Dr. Jahromi, former chair of the Telecommunications Engineering Department of ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Bahrain Tagged With: Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Masaud Jahromi, Scientists, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

CCS Urges Chile to Reopen the Investigation into Boris Weisfeiler’s Disappearance

March 28, 2016

Boris Weisfeiler disappeared in Chile in 1985. Human Rights

In January 1985, during the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Boris Weisfeiler, a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, disappeared while hiking alone in the Andes. According to the hundreds of United States declassified documents, it appears that Dr. Weisfeiler was kidnapped, questioned and tortured by the Chilean military and eventually executed. Take Action Sign the ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Chile Tagged With: Augusto Pinochet, Boris Weisfeiler, Chile, Human Rights, Military government of Chile (1973–1990), Pennsylvania State University, Scientists, The New York Times

Bahraini Engineer’s Appeal for Deportation to be Held March 6th

March 3, 2016

Masaud Jahromi, deported from Bahrain, human rights

​Dr. Masaud Mirza Jahromi, who was wrongfully stripped of his Bahrainian citizenship on January 31, 2015, has been notified that he would be deported shortly. An Appeal of that decision is to be held on March 6th. Should the decision be upheld, Dr. Jahromi will be deported shortly — without his family. CCS has written requesting the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs to correct this error and ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Bahrain Tagged With: Ahlia University, Human Rights, Masaud Jahromi, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Scholars Who Signed Petition Detained in Turkey, Many Dismissed from Jobs

January 21, 2016

Turkish authorities rounded up scholars who signed a petition requesting the military to stop their behavior towards the Kurdish community in the south eastern part of the country.  Universities also began dismissing the professors who had signed the petition.  Those detained have now been released but they do face investigation and possible arrest.  Many have already been dismissed from their ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Academics, Human Rights, Turkey, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Letter of Commendation to US Ambassador for Support of Detained Human Rights Attorneys

December 18, 2015

Photo of John Kerry, Jack Lew and Max Baucus at the Great Wall of China

The Committee of Concerned Scientists wrote a letter to commend the US Ambassador to China, The Honorable Max Baucus, for taking a position and making a public statement in support of the detained Human Rights attorneys in China.  Specifically, he mentioned the two attorneys for whom we have advocated in the past – Wang Yu who was the attorney for Ilham Tohti and Li Heping who was the attorney for ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: China Tagged With: Beijing, Chen Guangcheng, China, Human Rights, Ilham Tohti, Li Heping, Max Baucus, Wang Yu

Saudi Court of Appeals Upholds
Flogging Sentence of Blogger

June 10, 2015

Raif Badawi Protest, Oslo, Norway

The Committee of Concerned Scientists appeals to fellow academics to protest this offense against human rights, international law and every humane standard that would subject Raif Badawi to multiple floggings for the offense of expressing his opinion. Take Action: Sign the Petition June 10, 2015 Dr. John L. Hennessy President of Stanford University Building 10, Stanford CA 94305-2061 Dr. ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Saudi Arabia Tagged With: Amnesty International, Flagellation, Freedom of speech, Human Rights, Human Rights Activists, Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia

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