Iran Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/iran/ 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. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:32:13 +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 Iran Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/iran/ 32 32 59910430 CCS Expresses Concern About Harassment of Scientists Working on COVID-19 https://concernedscientists.org/2020/07/ccs-expresses-concern-about-harassment-of-scientists-working-on-covid-19/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:30:16 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8499 The Committee of Concerned Scientists is an independent organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars that has been working, since 1972, on the advancement of human rights and scientific freedom for our colleagues all over the world. At this time of great international effort on the containment of COVID-19, we are concerned with the politicization […]

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]]> 8499 Australian Academic Still In Solitary Confinement In Iranian Prison After Large Prisoner Release https://concernedscientists.org/2020/05/australian-academic-still-in-solitary-confinement-in-iranian-prison-after-large-prisoner-release/ Fri, 08 May 2020 22:46:37 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7914 Kylie Moore-Gilbert, researcher in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, is being held in solitary confinement and sentenced to 10-years in prison, allegedly for espionage, which she has denied. While tens of thousands of prisoners have been released, due to threat of Covid-19, Moore-Gilbert is being retained. CCS has written the letter below to […]

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]]> 7914 Narges Mohammadi Remains in Jail Despite Iranian Prisoner Releases https://concernedscientists.org/2020/05/narges-mohammadi-remains-in-jail-despite-iranian-prisoner-releases/ Sun, 03 May 2020 18:42:12 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7911 At the end of last year Iranian physicist, engineer, and human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, serving a 16-year-prison sentence for establishing an organization dedicated to abolishing the death penalty in Iran, was transferred to a prison in the city of Zanjan. In March, a letter from her mother, Ozra Bazarganm, to Iran’s Chief Justice revealed […]

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]]> 7911 CCS Suggests Iran Free Ahmadreza Djalali to Work on Coronavirus Problem https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/ccs-suggests-iran-free-ahmadreza-djalali-to-work-on-coronavirus-problem/ Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:55:02 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7879 March 18, 2020 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran c/o Majid Takht-Revanche, Ambassador Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, P.O. Box: 20432 New York, NY 10017 Email: mailto:iran@un.int, Fax: 212-687-2020 Your Excellency Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The Committee of Concerned […]

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]]> 7879 Australian-British Lecturer Describes Incarceration In Iran Through Series of Letters https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/australian-british-lecturer-describes-incarceration-in-iran-through-series-of-letters/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 01:50:04 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7840 Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British lecturer on Islamic Studies at Melbourne University in Australia where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2017. She was arrested in Iran in September 2018 while conducting field research. She was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison on unknown charges that are rumored to be related to […]

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]]> 7840 Committee of Concerned Scientists’ Co-Chair Highlights Egregious Treatment Received by Female Scholars Behind Prison Walls in Iran https://concernedscientists.org/2020/01/committee-of-concerned-scientists-co-chair-highlights-egregious-treatment-received-by-female-scholars-behind-prison-walls-in-iran/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:26:32 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7814 The post Committee of Concerned Scientists’ Co-Chair Highlights Egregious Treatment Received by Female Scholars Behind Prison Walls in Iran appeared first on Committee of Concerned Scientists.

]]> 7814 Iranian Physicist Imprisoned for 16-Year Sentence Tortured and Transferred to Strict Facility https://concernedscientists.org/2020/01/iranian-physicist-imprisoned-for-16-year-sentence-tortured-and-trasnferred-to-strict-facility/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:48:25 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7800 The post Iranian Physicist Imprisoned for 16-Year Sentence Tortured and Transferred to Strict Facility appeared first on Committee of Concerned Scientists.

]]> 7800 Two Female Inmates in Evin Prison Start Christmas Eve Hunger Strike https://concernedscientists.org/2019/12/two-female-inmates-in-evin-prison-start-christmas-eve-hunger-strike/ Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:13:30 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7773 On Christmas Eve Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Iranian-born, French academic, Fariba Adelkhah began a hunger strike for freedom for all researchers and political prisoners in Iran who have been unjustly imprisoned on fake charges.  It has been suggested that academics worldwide  write or go to Iranian  Embassies in their countries and demand release of […]

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]]> 7773 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 Environmental Scientists Being Detained In Iran and Accused of Spying https://concernedscientists.org/2018/10/environmental-scientists-being-detained-in-iran-and-accused-of-spying/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:23:55 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7190 Several environmental scientists have been arrested in Iran and accused of spying on nuclear facilities. One of the scientists, an American citizen Morad Tahbaz, graduate of Columbia University, is co-founder of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. Members of the Foundation have openly opposed installation of underground nuclear and missile launch facilities on protected lands. Its […]

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