Librarian Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/librarian/ 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. Fri, 18 Dec 2015 21:55:18 +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 Librarian Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/librarian/ 32 32 59910430 Russian Librarian Placed Under House Arrest for Allegedly “inciting hatred” https://concernedscientists.org/2015/12/russian-librarian-placed-under-house-arrest-for-allegedly-inciting-hatred/ Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:00:16 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4709 Natalia Sharina, a Russian librarian, was placed under house arrest for allegedly “inciting hatred” because the library contained books banned under Russian anti-extremism laws. Ms. Sharina was detained and may be tried as an attempt to intimidate librarians. The Committee of Concerned Scientists has written to President Putin requesting that he take all steps necessary to ensure that charges be dropped and that she be released and any items confiscated be returned to her.

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