treason Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/treason/ 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, 10 Jun 2021 03:26:52 +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 treason Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/treason/ 32 32 59910430 President of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia Charged with High Treason https://concernedscientists.org/2020/07/president-of-the-arctic-academy-of-sciences-in-st-petersburg-russia-charged-with-high-treason/ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:30:30 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=8555 The post President of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia Charged with High Treason appeared first on Committee of Concerned Scientists.

]]> 8555 Harvard Educated Economist Re-Arrested and Sentenced to Two Years in Prison in South Sudan For Interviewing with the Voice of America https://concernedscientists.org/2019/08/harvard-educated-economist-re-arrested-and-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-in-south-sudan-for-interviewing-with-the-voice-of-america/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 20:27:32 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7539 Peter Ajak, an economist and political activist, was falsely arrested in July 2018 for treason and detained for eight months after which time the charges were dropped and he was released. He was immediately re-arrested and charged with inciting public violence while in prison for giving an interview to the Voice of America in an […]

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]]> 7539 Russia Jails Prominent Rocket Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/2019/07/lead-russian-scientist-researching-airflow-on-rocket-re-entries-into-earths-atmosphere-in-2013-arrested-for-spying/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:59:33 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7444 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/russia-imprisons-leading-rocket-scientists-over-leak-paranoia (Washington Examiner, June 17, 2019 by Dr. Eugene Chudnovsky, Co-Chair, Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc. and distinguished professor at the City University of New York )

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]]> 7444 Russian Scientist, Aleksey Temirev, Accused of Treason https://concernedscientists.org/2018/09/russian-scientist-aleksey-temirev-accused-of-treason/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:31:22 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7144 Aleksey Temirev, a Doctor of Technical Sciences, has been accused of leaking secret information to Vietnam. Temirev, however, denies that the information was secret. CCS has written President Putin requesting that the case be reviewed to assure that it was not the common practice of scientists collaborating on a project and sharing information between two […]

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]]> 7144 Russia Has Jailed Leading Researcher and Rocket Scientist for Treason https://concernedscientists.org/2018/09/russia-has-jailed-leading-researcher-and-rocket-scientist-for-treason/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:27:41 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7135 Victor Kudryavtsev has worked for the Russian space industry for the past 48 years. He was the leading scientist at the Central Research Institute of Machine Building, known as TsNIIMash – Russia’s main rocket development center, near Moscow. On July 20, 2018 the Russian Federal Security Services (“FSB,” – formerly the KGB) raided his apartment […]

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