Prison Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/prison/ 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 03:25:28 +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 Prison Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/prison/ 32 32 59910430 2018 APS Andrei Sakharov Prize Winner Has Tested Positive for the COVID Virus While Incarcerated in an Iranian Prison https://concernedscientists.org/2020/07/2018-aps-andrei-sakharov-prize-winner-has-tested-positive-for-the-covid-virus-while-incarcerated-in-an-iranian-prison/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:40:25 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8542 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. […]

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]]> 8542 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 17 Scholars, from Meliksah University in Turkey, Sentenced To Maximum of 11 Years in Prison https://concernedscientists.org/2019/11/17-scholars-from-meliksah-university-in-turkey-sentenced-to-maximum-of-11-years-in-prison/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:04:47 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7653 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 […]

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]]> 7653 British-Australian Lecturer Has Been Held in Iranian Prison for Past Year Convicted of Espionage https://concernedscientists.org/2019/09/british-australian-lecturer-has-been-held-in-iranian-prison-for-past-year-convicted-of-espionage/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:56:52 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7568 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 […]

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]]> 7568 CCS Encourages US Congressmen to Advocate for Release of Serkan Golge from Turkey with Charges Dropped https://concernedscientists.org/2019/08/ccs-encourages-us-congressmen-to-advocate-for-release-of-serkan-golge-from-turkey-with-charges-dropped/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 02:05:32 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7529 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 […]

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]]> 7529 Prominent Academic for Peace Released from Turkish Prison https://concernedscientists.org/2019/07/prominent-academic-for-peace-released-from-turkish-prison/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 01:44:36 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7489 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 […]

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]]> 7489 Imprisoned Former Bahraini Professor’s Health Continues to Deteriorate https://concernedscientists.org/2019/07/imprisoned-former-bahraini-professors-health-continues-to-deteriorate/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:01:52 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7454 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 […]

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]]> 7454 Iranian Prisoner in Dire Need of Independent Hospitalization for Post-Op Infection https://concernedscientists.org/2019/07/iranian-prisoner-in-dire-need-of-independent-hospitalization-for-post-op-infection/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:55:59 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7437 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 […]

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]]> 7437 Wife Pleads for Release of Princeton Student Incarcerated in Iran While Doing Research on Dissertation https://concernedscientists.org/2019/07/wife-pleads-for-release-of-princeton-student-incarcerated-in-iran-while-doing-research-on-dissertation/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:49:18 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7435 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 […]

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