Kavous Seyed Emami Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/kavous-seyed-emami/ 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. Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:47:53 +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 Kavous Seyed Emami Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/kavous-seyed-emami/ 32 32 59910430 Conservationist Depicts Iranian Prison Conditions In Letters Sent to Media https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/conservationist-depicts-iranian-prison-conditions-in-letters-sent-to-media/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:47:53 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7860 Niloufar Bayani is a widely respected conservation scientist who works at the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. She received a Master’s in conservation biology from Columbia University in 2012, and then worked for the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva before joining the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation in 2017. She and eight colleagues were arrested in […]

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]]> 7860 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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]]> 7212 Kavous Seyed Emami, an Iranian-Canadian Environmentalist, Dies in Tehran Prison https://concernedscientists.org/2018/02/kavous-seyed-emami-an-iranian-canadian-environmentalist-dies-in-tehran-prison/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:20:25 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6759 Kavous Seyed Emami, an environmentalist, professor of sociology at Tehran’s Imam Sadegh University and Founder of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (Iran’s most prominent non-governmental organization focussed on the environment) was arrested on January 24th by intelligence agents, along with several other environmental activists and charged with espionage. His wife received a phone call from […]

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