Student Activist Maryam Shafipour Released from Prison
Maryam Shafipour, 29, was released from a women's wing of Evin Prison in Tehran on Thursday July 16, 2015. She was arrested in July after...
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Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee
In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20192 min read
Hamid Babaei
In Brief Status: Released In October 2019, Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Mostafa Alavi
In Brief In August 2008 Mostafa Alavi was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Iranian court for “plotting against the regime.” He...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Yashar Darolshafa
In Brief Yashar Darolshafa, a graduate student of Sociology at Tehran University and the former secretary of the Islamic Reformist...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Saeed Madani
In Brief In June 2013 sociologist and political activist Saeed Madani was sentenced to six years in prison and ten years in exile on...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 13, 20192 min read
Ahmadreza Djalali Languishing in Iranian Prison—124 Nobel Laureates Call for His Release
It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran....
Ebby Abramson
Oct 9, 20183 min read
Another Baha’i Student Barred from Advancing Studies
In the latest wave of oppression against Baha’i students in Iran, Anahita Horr, an undergraduate at the School of Architecture at Rasam...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 12, 20181 min read
Letter of Appeal on Behalf of XiYue Wang Imprisoned Graduate Student in Iran
On September 12, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the US Department of...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Tehran University Student Activist Sentenced to Seven Years
On September 5, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a University of Tehran photography student was sentenced to seven years...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 24, 20182 min read
Iranian Academics Call for Suspension of Student Protest Cases
According to a report published by BBC Persian on July 22, 2018, some 120 academics from universities across Iran issued an open letter...
Ebby Abramson
May 7, 20182 min read
Rally set for May 11 to Support Princeton University Graduate Student Imprisoned in Iran
Supporters of Xiyue Wang, the Princeton University graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran for almost two years, will hold a...
Ebby Abramson
May 1, 20182 min read
British-Iranian Professor Abbas Edalat Arrested in Iran
Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor at the Imperial College of London, has been arrested by security forces in Tehran, according to...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 8, 20182 min read
The University of Copenhagen Supports Death-Sentenced Scientist
The rector of the University of Copenhagen has signed a letter expressing concern over the death sentence issued against Ahmadreza...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 12, 20181 min read
Academic Kavous Seyed Emami "Killed himself" in Iran Jail
Kavous Seyed Emami, a 63-year-old Iranian-Canadian environmental activist, died in prison in Tehran. Authorities claim Emami committed...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Urgent—Djalali’s Execution in Iran "Could Happen Any Time"
Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request to review the death sentence given to Ahmadreza Djalali, a university professor accused of...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 5, 20182 min read
90 Students Arrested in Iran as Protests Continue
According to BBC Persian, the number of students detained has risen to 90 as protests continue in Iran. At least fourteen were arrested...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 24, 20173 min read
UN Human Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Ahmadreza Djalali
On December 20, 2017, four UN human rights experts called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 17, 20173 min read
Iranian TV Broadcasts Purported Confession of Iranian-Swedish Academic Sentenced to Death
Iranian state TV has aired what it calls a confession by Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been sentenced to death...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 13, 20172 min read
PETITION TO IRAN TO OVERTURN PROFESSOR AHMADREZA DJALALI’S DEATH SENTENCE
We, the undersigned, are compelled to express our outrage at the arrest, conviction, and sentencing of Iranian professor Ahmadreza...
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