US EditionPetition calls for release of Iranian Nobel laureate and other detainees in Iran
More than 1,000 activists demand freedom for Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi and others detained after a memorial protest against Iran's regime, highlighting broad political unity.
- Earlier this month, more than a thousand political, social and cultural activists signed a petition condemning the violent arrest of Narges Mohammadi in Mashhad and demanded her immediate release.
- At the memorial for Khosrow Alikordi attendees protested with slogans including `death to the dictator`; Mohammadi had campaigned against sharia laws and was released from Evin prison in December 2024.
- Mohammadi's foundation reported that arrestees included Sepideh Gholian, Hasti Amiri, Pouran Nazemi, Aliyeh Motallebzadeh, Javad Alikordi, and dozens of other attendees, while Taghi Rahmani posted that `apparently` Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence was behind the arrests.
- The petition demanded immediate and unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi and detainees' rights including phone calls, family visits, legal counsel, and medical care, condemning the violent arrest.
- Mina Akbari, Iranian documentary filmmaker and activist, wrote that the petition shows `unprecedented unity` amid deep political divisions, while some attorneys and activists suggested possible Islamic Republic involvement in Khosrow Alikordi's death.
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The Iranian Journalist Who Dialed Nobel Laureates
On Nov. 25, 2009, at 10 a.m. California time, I was scheduled to conduct a phone interview with Kurt Wüthrich, who was at his office at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. Between 2009 and 2014, I worked as a reporter for Daneshmand magazine, Iran’s longest-running popular science periodical, covering the intersection of science, knowledge and society. A U.S.-based Swiss scientist, Wüthrich had won the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and…
Anxiety arises around the fate of Narges Mohammadi. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2023 was arrested on 12 December in Mashad, eastern Iran, during a tribute to a famous human rights lawyer, found dead six days earlier in her office. Officially a heart attack... despite traces of contusions whose body appeared to be covered. The images of the 16 surveillance cameras? Undiscoverable, like this 53-year-old activist, who has since been locked up in a pri…
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