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2018 APS Andrei Sakharov Prize Winner Has Tested Positive for the COVID Virus While Incarcerated in an Iranian Prison

July 17, 2020

Narges Mohammedi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who has been confined in Iranian prisons since May 2015, serving a 16-year sentence, requested temporary release or sentence remission due to the abundance of inmates with Covid-19 in the prison. She was denied release in March, when over 100,000 detainees were granted temporary release. In July, she and several of her cellmates ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran Tagged With: covid, mohammedi, Narges, Prison

Australian Academic Still In Solitary Confinement In Iranian Prison After Large Prisoner Release

May 8, 2020

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 the Prime Minister of Australia as her ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Australia, CCS Cases, Iran Tagged With: Australia, Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Iran, Moore-Gilbert, Prison

Narges Mohammadi Remains in Jail Despite Iranian Prisoner Releases

May 3, 2020

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 that Narges Mohammadi has continued to face ill ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: 16 Year Prison Sentence, Abolishing Death Penalty, Iran, Narges Mohammadi, Prison, Zanjan

17 Scholars, from Meliksah University in Turkey, Sentenced To Maximum of 11 Years in Prison

November 6, 2019

In the aftermath of the attempted coup in 2016, many universities in Turkey were closed leaving staff with no jobs and students with no available schooling. Many staff members of these schools were charged for “supporting a terrorist organization." Meliksah University was one of those involved. On August 15, 2016 arrest warrants were issued for 100 members of their staff. Sixty-three were detained ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Prison, sentenced, turkish scholars

British-Australian Lecturer Has Been Held in Iranian Prison for Past Year Convicted of Espionage

September 21, 2019

Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Studies Institute, was arrested in Iran and charged with espionage. She has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. This week it was revealed that a British-Australian academic who had been teaching at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute in Australia was arrested in Iran in October of 2018 , tried allegedly for ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: charged, Espionage, Kylie, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, lecturer, Moore-Gilbert, Prison, sentenced

CCS Encourages US Congressmen to Advocate for Release of Serkan Golge from Turkey with Charges Dropped

August 13, 2019

NASA Scientist, U.S. citizen, Serkan Golge who was wrongly accused of participating in the attempted coup in Turkey, was released from prison recently, but is still required to wear an ankle monitor and report to the police four days a week. His charges were never dropped, his passport was not returned, and he is not free to leave Turkey. CCS is writing to Congressmen Lankford, Wicker, Cardin, ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Golge, Prison, released, serkan, Serkan Golge

Prominent Academic for Peace Released from Turkish Prison

July 23, 2019

Prof. Füsun Üstel of Galatasaray University has been released from Eskişehir Women's Prison after serving two and a half months of her 15-month sentence. According to her attorney, the rest of her sentence has been suspended. On July 26th, the Turkish Constitutional Court, in a plenary session, will hear the objection to the verdicts of Füsun Üstel and 9 other academics for peace. Prof. Füsun ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Füsun, Füsun Üstel, Prison, released, Üstel

Imprisoned Former Bahraini Professor’s Health Continues to Deteriorate

July 1, 2019

Dr. Abdul Jalil al-Singace, former professor and Department Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Bahrain, is serving a life sentence for peaceful political and human rights activism. Dr. al-Singace has not seen his family since 2017 and his health continues to deteriorate. He has continuously been tortured, held for long periods in small solitary cells and his ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Bahrain Tagged With: Abdul Jalil Al-Singace, activism, life sentence, Prison, tortured

Iranian Prisoner in Dire Need of Independent Hospitalization for Post-Op Infection

July 1, 2019

Narges Mohammadi, a 46-year old Iranian physicist, engineer and human rights advocate confined in Evin Prison, sentenced to 16 years for peaceful advocacy of women’s rights and abolition of the death penalty, is in need of hospitalization. In May of 2019 she had a hysterectomy and was rushed back to the prison in less than one week. As a result, she has a post-operative infection for which she is ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: hospitalized, Mohammadi, Narges, Narges Mohammadi, Prison, surgery

Wife Pleads for Release of Princeton Student Incarcerated in Iran While Doing Research on Dissertation

July 1, 2019

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 conducting pre-approved research for his doctoral dissertation. Wang was ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Iran Tagged With: imprisoned, Prison, student, wang, Xiyue, Xiyue Wang

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