The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives in Pakistan (CPDI-Pakistan) has demanded Kian’s immediate release of Dr. Tajbakhsh, who has supervised the academic work of many International Policy Fellows in Pakistan, and is well known to colleagues in CPDI-Pakistan and other research and civil society organizations.
Kian was scheduled to visit Pakistan to participate in the regional IPF […]
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Kian serves as an academic advisor to the International Policy Fellowship Program of the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University. The program has released a statement to the press about his arrest:
We are issuing this statement to draw your attention to the arrest in Iran of respected American Iranian scholar Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh. […]
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The website of the King’s School in Canterbury, England, where Kian attended secondary school, has put up a notice about his arrest and the campaign for his release.
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The American Sociological Association has sent a letter to the Iranian government expressing dismay at the charges against Kian and calling for his release. The letter can be viewed in PDF format here. It reads in part:
We are writing on behalf of the more than 14,000 members of the American Sociological Assocation (ASA), a scientific society of academic and […]
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The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, a leading international scholarly journal for which Kian serves as a corresponding editor, has issued this letter on his behalf:
Dear Sirs,
We understand that agents of the Iranian Ministry of Information arrested Dr Kian Tajbakhsh at his home in Tehran on 11th May, that he is being detained […]
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The board of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development has sent the following letter to the Iranian authorities:
Dear Sirs:
As elected Steering Committee members of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development (RC21) of the International Sociological Association, we write to express our grave […]
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The London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat recently published this column by Elias Harfouch on the situation in Iran:
A ‘Velvet Revolution’ in Iran?
1 June 2007
In line with what similar regimes do, Tehran could not find a better way to cut short voices within Iran than ‘uncovering’ a US spy network. These voices had expressed doubts about the dialogue that […]
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The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom and the International Society for Iranian Studies’ Committee for Academic and Intellectual Freedom have issued a public letter to the Iranian leadership, rejecting the accusations against Kian and Haleh and calling for their release:
May 30, 2007
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
C/O H.E. […]
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Today’s Washington Post includes a forceful editorial calling for the release of all dual nationals who are being held prisoner in Iran:
Iran Hostage Crisis, Part 2
Tehran should immediately release the American citizens it has detained.
Friday, June 1, 2007
PARANOID that a network of U.S. scholars and thinkers is fomenting a velvet revolution, Iran charged three U.S.-Iranian citizens […]
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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 […]
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Two associations of philanthrophic organizations, the Philanthrophy Roundtable and the Council on Foundations, have issued a statement calling for Kian’s release:
One of the hallmarks of friendship between nations is the opportunity
for private citizens from one country to engage in lawful charitable
activity in another.
The Philanthropy Roundtable and the Council on Foundations, associations
of American philanthropic foundations, are […]
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We’ve added a new page with some of Kian’s published work, including personal essays and academic writing, on topics ranging from the links between Iran and India to the role of the city as a space for cultural interaction. We will continue to add more of his work to the Kian’s Writing page as we gather copies. If […]
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