We are continuing to gather the comments left on the petition and will be creating an additional page for them soon.  Thank you so much for sharing your words.  Here are more of the things people have been saying about Kian:

I knew Kian as a young man in London; he spent his childhood in exile in the UK, yeaning for his country. He was a strong patriot with a deep love of his country even then. He is a good person who only wants the best for his country and its people. Please free this man and show the world that you a government of integrity.
-Sarah Campos-Martyn, UK

Kian is known to me as committed academic and development professional. His detention is portraying a negative image of the Iranian Govt. as a regime against progressive reforms and prosperity for the Iranian people. On behalf of a wider academic and development community across the world, we appeal for his immediate release and at least a fair opportunity to explain his position and access to legal defence.
-Mukhtar Aziz Kansi, UNICEF, Pakistan

Kian was my flatmate when we were students at Columbia. He was erudite, humourous and deeply concerned about Iran. I am outraged at his arrest.
-Nandini Sundar, Delhi University, India

I have known Kian since he was a student. These charges are completely ungrounded.
-Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, US

By detaining peace-loving scholars like Kian and Haleh, the Iranian government is making things more difficult for those who wish Iran well.
-Beena Sarwar, journalist, Pakistan

As an academician who met Kian at an international conference, I am dismayed to hear of his arrest. I believe he is a scholar of the highest calibre who is committed to social science research in Iran. I hope that he will be released and able to continue his research projects.
-Leyla Neyzi, Sabanci University, Turkey

Hard to imagine such allegations can be made against such a dedicated person, such a thorough gentleman. A great tragedy for his family at a time when he is needed most urgently at his home.
-Sharda Mathur, India

I knew Kian back in the 1980s when we were both working in India. It is disheartening to me that his unjust incarceration is the means by which I have reconnected with him. I have always known Kian as a fiercely independent and intellectually curious individual — characteristics that many governments, unfortunately, find threatening. I urge the Iranian government to release him promptly. His incarceration, and that of many others, is a disgrace to the values and interests of the Iranian people, and those that the Iranian government professes to follow.
-Ronald Slye, Seattle University School of Law, US

This man is a scholar, not a spy. Please free him! He has done nothing wrong but only works to build peace between our two countries.
-Stephanie Low, US

Kian is a great man of peace and understanding between cultures. He should be able to continue his work. Free him now.
-Wiktor Janusz Osiatynski, Hungary and Poland

Kian is a respected colleague and urban scholar whose imprisonment is unjustified and harmful to Iran’s reputation abroad. He must be released immediately.
-Simon Parker, University of York, UK

Kian is a co-author, a colleague from my years at the New School, a fellow urban scholar of the developing world, and a man whom I know to be committed to the Iranian people and to promoting scholarly inquiry. I lament this terrible situation and urge his immediate release.
-Diane Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

It is long overdue that the good citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States began to educate our leaders and elevate the esteem of our nations by mending old wounds and coming together in a spirit of mutual respect and peaceful dialogue. There is no better place to begin this task than by together calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh, someone who shares those very ideals and believed in them enough to apply himself to their realization. .
-Lloyd Vivola, US

I personally met Kian in Aug 2006, and I strongly feel he’s a valuable person for Iran’s social and political development.
-Stefano Pasquale, Italy

Kian is a mild, scholarly man with humanitarian views. Under no circumstance would he be involved in any form of insurrection. He is a credit to his nation and should be released immediately.
-Lingard Goulding, Ireland

I met Kian about 30 years ago because our mothers met in NYC during their graduate studies in social work. Both of our families have dedicated their lives to trying to make a positive impact on society.  Kian is an asset to both Iran and the US and a person who should be leveraged for good not political brinksmanship.
-Paul Herdman, Rodel Foundation, US

Kian has always had a love of Iran and has dedicated the past few years of his life to serving his country. This is an injustice to him personally, his family and the country he has so faithfully served, Iran.
-Katayoon Tajbaksh Precht, US

Kian Tajbakhsh is a gentle, intelligent young man with love for his country and its rich civilization. My prayers are that such a brilliant mind does not go to waste behind bars for much longer.
-Sherry Tajbakhsh, US

Kian is a wonderful man, a man of warmth and humour and affection, a man who relishes his family and friends and his home, Iran.
-Dermot Dix, Headfort School, Ireland

It is high time Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh is freed. Enough of this injustice against an innocent fellow.
-Abiodun Folawewo, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

Kian is one of the brightest children of the Iranian diaspora that I have met since 1979.
-Jamshid Anvar, Iran/US

Our thoughts are with all of you; this is the worst possible time for him to be separated from the family.
-Chandana Mathur, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland/India

Kian Tajbakhsh is a serious scholar and an engaged free thinking intellectual. Arresting people like him is no sign of democracy.
-Rada Ivekovic, France

Please release this esteemed scholar; his detention does great harm to Iran.
-John Waters, New York University, US

Kian is a good man. He does not deserve to be treated like this.
-Anna Moore, UK