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Irina Brailovsky
Irina Brailovsky Mathematician Irina Brailovsky’s story typifies those of hundreds of Jewish scientists, engineers and physicians who applied to emigrate from the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s. In...
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Fang Lizhi
Fang Li Zhi When the Chinese astrophysicist Fang Li Zhi fell from grace in 1988 for allegedly fomenting student unrest, CCS sprang into action. We sent letters protesting restrictions placed on his...
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Liu Gang
Liu Gang CCS met the announcement of the trial of the physics graduate student Liu Gang on charges of “conspiracy to overthrow the Government” with cables to Premier Li Peng and leaders of Chinese...
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Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s sentence to two years hard labor for “defaming Egypt”–based on his criticism of President Mubarak’s poor human rights record–was overturned in May 2009,...
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On May 25, 2009, India’s Supreme Court granted Dr. Binayak Sen unconditional release on bail. Dr. Sen, a medical doctor, and his wife, Ilina, are at Christian Medical College in Vellore receiving...
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Dr. Matrouk al-Faleh
Dr. Matrouk al-Faleh Dr. Matrouk al-Faleh, a 55-year-old Saudi political scientist and human rights advocate, was released from prison on January 10, 2009, after being held for more than seven months...
View ArticleDr. Nozima Kamalova
In August 2009, CCS assisted the human rights organization Scholars at Risk in obtaining a fellowship for 2009 at New York University Law School for Dr. Nozima Kamalova, a lawyer and human rights...
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Liu Xiaobo still imprisoned
Liu Xiaobo Letter on behalf of Liu Xiaobo by Vaclav Havel, Pavel Landovsky, and Vaclav Maly Originally published in the Washington Post To His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of...
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Weisfeiler Case submitted to Human Rights Commission in Chile
Boris Weisfeiler in 1981 In 2010, Olga Weisfeiler and her son Lev arrived in Chile to resubmit Boris Weisfeiler’s case to the recently opened human rights commission, Comisión Asesora par la...
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Chen Guangcheng Calls Rule of Law Essential in China for Human Rights
By the United States Department of State via Wikimedia Commons Blind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is studying at NYU law school under asylum in the US, gave a talk on February 6, 2013, at the...
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Dr. Djalali, Expert in Disaster Medicine, Scheduled for Trial on August 2,...
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, an expert in Disaster Medicine, was arrested and has been detained in Evin Prison since April 2016. He has been charged with “collaborating with hostile governments” and “acting...
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Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali Sentenced to Death in Iran
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death on October 21, 2017 by a revolutionary court on espionage charges. Dr. Djalali is a physician and lecturer in Disaster Medicine and was in Iran at the...
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Iranian Born Physician Sentenced to Death. Appeals Made to Heads of Countries...
In early October, Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a physician and lecturer in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, was training a group of professionals when he was arrested by representatives from the Ministry of...
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Death Sentence Against Ahmadreza Djalali Provisionally Suspended While Under...
It was just announced in The Brussels Times that the death sentence against Iranian-Swedish Professor Ahmadreza Djalali has been provisionally suspended while under review by the Iranian Supreme Court....
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Verdict for US NASA Scientist, Jailed in Turkey, Scheduled for February 8
NASA scientist, Serkan Golge, accused of spying for the CIA was arrested in July 2016 and charged with terrorism. He is one of thousands caught up in a government crackdown following a failed coup...
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Ahmadreza Djalali Writes Plea to Iranian International Deputy for Chief...
Dr. Djalali, a physician and academician in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, has written to Mohammad-Javad Larijani requesting that he review his case, review all of the documents presented, meet with...
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Ahmadreza Djalali Writes Supporters Pleading for Their Continued Advocacy....
Ahmadreza Djalali, emergency and disaster medicine physician and lecturer, is still confined in a prison in Iran awaiting execution (or a reversal of his sentence). He came, by invitation, to lecture...
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*UPDATED* Chinese American Citizen Who Worked for the Weather Bureau Lost Job...
Several Chinese American citizens have been accused of spying for China. They have been found not guilty and their agencies/organizations have refused to reinstate them into their prior position....
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NASA Scientist Imprisoned in Turkey Scheduled for Court Hearing on September...
Serkan Golge, a NASA scientist has been confined in jail in Turkey since July 2016, when he was arrested on a family vacation and accused of being involved with the failed coup attempt that took place...
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On the eve of Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo 121 Nobel...
9th December, 2018 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Via the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor New...
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