imprisoned Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/imprisoned/ 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 23:15:22 +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 imprisoned Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/imprisoned/ 32 32 59910430 Turkish/US Dual Citizen Still Barred From Returning To His Job In the US https://concernedscientists.org/2019/08/turkish-us-dual-citizen-still-barred-from-returning-to-his-job-in-the-us/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:17:23 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7547 Professor Ismail Kul was arrested in August 2016 for allegedly participating in the attempted coup of July 2016, and imprisoned for 18 months. The Turkish authorities released him in January 2018, six months after evidence of his innocence came out. He is still barred from traveling, and, in particular, from returning to his home in […]

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]]> 7547 Wife Pleads for Release of Princeton Student Incarcerated in Iran While Doing Research on Dissertation https://concernedscientists.org/2019/07/wife-pleads-for-release-of-princeton-student-incarcerated-in-iran-while-doing-research-on-dissertation/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:49:18 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7435 Hua Qu, the wife of Xiyue Wang, is pleading for help to have her husband released from Evin Prison in Iran. In late May Xiyue Wang marked his 1,000 day of incarceration unjustly imprisoned in Iran. Wang, a PhD candidate in Princeton University’s history department was arrested and accused of espionage in August 2016 while […]

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]]> 7435 Mathematician Tuna Altinel Imprisoned in Turkey Without a Formal Sentence from the Court https://concernedscientists.org/2019/05/mathematician-tuna-altinel-imprisoned-in-turkey-without-a-formal-sentence-from-the-court/ Wed, 22 May 2019 00:08:27 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7408 Following this post is a PETITION from the Mathematics Department of Lyon 1 University for Tuna Altinel. Please add your name. Here is a link to that petition: https://math.univ-lyon1.fr/petitionTunaAltinel/en/free-tuna-altinel/ Tuna Altinel is a mathematics professor at France’s Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University. He was arrested last weekend in Turkey and accused of “propagandizing for a […]

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]]> 7408 On the eve of Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo 121 Nobel Laureates have appealed to the Supreme Leader of Iran, asking Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to interfere personally in the case of the medical doctor Ahmadreza Djalali. Sir Richard Roberts (picture) wrote the letter petitioning for the release and dismissal of charges against Dr. Djalali and 121 former Nobel winners have signed. Dr. Djalali, dual citizen of Iran and Sweden, was sentenced to death in Iran in 2017 on charges disputed by the international community. (Picture provided by the Genetic Literacy Project.) https://concernedscientists.org/2018/12/on-the-eve-of-nobel-prize-award-ceremonies-in-stockholm-and-oslo-121-nobel-laureates-have-appealed-to-the-supreme-leader-of-iran-asking-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-to-interfere-personally-in-the-case-of-t/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 03:16:24 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7253 9th December, 2018 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Via the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10017 Dear Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: In November 2017, and again in February 2018 I wrote on behalf […]

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