Torture Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/torture/ 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, 09 Sep 2021 16:27:52 +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 Torture Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/torture/ 32 32 59910430 Former Chinese Diplomat, and Academic with Australian Citizenship, Who Was Visiting Scholar at The University of Columbia in New York, Confined in Chinese Jail Since January 2019 https://concernedscientists.org/2020/05/former-chinese-diplomat-and-academic-with-australian-citizenship-who-was-visiting-scholar-at-the-university-of-columbia-in-new-york-confined-in-chinese-jail-since-january-2019/ Sun, 03 May 2020 18:38:19 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7909 Yang Hengjun has been in Chinese custody since January 2019 charged and prosecuted for espionage. Reports indicate he has been tortured and in isolation and barred from visits from Australian government officials. He is in fragile health and his wife has been denied travel privileges out of China. CCS has written the President of China […]

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]]> 7909 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 CCS Urges Saudi King to Pardon Blogger https://concernedscientists.org/2015/12/ccs-urges-saudi-king-to-pardon-blogger/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:03:10 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4677 CCS wrote to the King of Saudi Arabia, requesting a pardon for Raif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger who was sentenced to a 10-year prison term as well as weekly floggings for “insulting Islam through electronic channels.” By subjecting Badawi to torture, Saudi Arabia violates agreements that it is party to: The UN Convention Against Torture and the […]

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