Middle East Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/middle-east/ 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. Sun, 31 May 2020 15:10:35 +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 Middle East Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/middle-east/ 32 32 59910430 Responding to CCS, UN Working Group Finds Iranian Detention of Amouee Arbitrary https://concernedscientists.org/2014/03/responding-to-ccs-un-working-group-finds-iranian-detention-of-amouee-arbitrary/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:58:21 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3158 Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, an economist and journalist, was arrested and imprisoned in June 2009 for alleged anti-state activities and was sentenced to seven years and four months imprisonment and 34 lashes. On January 27, 2014, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion, based in part on information provided by CCS, […]

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