posted June 13, 2008 | Country: Republic of Chad
Re: Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh

Read the letter to Honorable President Déby of the Republic of Chad

posted November 5, 2007 | Country: Cuba
Re: Oscar Biscet

President George Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor, to Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet, an opponent of Cuba’s communist regime serving a 25-year sentence in a high-security Havana prison.

posted September 28, 2007 | Country: Great Britain

The International Board for Academic Freedom announces that UK based University and College Union(UCU) has declared that an academic boycott of Israel is illegal and cannot be implemented.

posted September 27, 2007 | Country: Cuba

A leading government critic and six others gave authorities a letter demanding the release of all Cuban political prisoners. Read the AP article online.

posted September 20, 2007 | Country: China
Re: Jiang Yanyong | Gao Yaojie

Dr. Gao Yaojie and Dr. Jiang Yanyong, two Chinese physicians, were selected "in recognition of their selfless work to contain the infectious epidemics of AIDS and SARS."

posted September 4, 2007 | Country: Iran
Re: Haleh Esfandiari

Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was freed and left Iran on Sept 4th, 2007 to return to the US.

posted July 25, 2007 | Country: Ethiopia
Re: Mesfin Woldemariam

Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, 2006 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award recipient, and 37 of his fellow prisoners of conscience were freed.

posted July 24, 2007 | Country: Libya
Re: Ashraf al-Hazouz | Valya Chervenyashka | Snezhanka Dmitrova | Nasya Nenova | Valentina Siropulo | Kristiana Valcheva

The medical workers and a Palestinian doctor who were imprisoned in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV have arrived in Bulgaria after being freed.

posted June 19, 2007 | Country: Great Britain

Read the letter to Sally Hunt, General Secretary University and College Union

posted June 19, 2007 | Country: Iran
Re: Haleh Esfandiari

Haleh Esfandiari, the director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washinton DC was detained in Tehran in December 2006 and arrested on May 8th, 2007.

posted March 9, 2007 | Country: Ethiopia
Re: Mesfin Woldemariam

Read Professor Mesfin's own words.

posted March 9, 2007 | Country: Ethiopia
Re: Mesfin Woldemariam

Read the letter to the Ethiopian government on his behalf.

posted March 9, 2007 | Country: Ethiopia
Re: Mesfin Woldemariam

Read the letter to Condoleezza Rice, Rep. Donald Payne, Senator Joe Biden, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Sam Brownback,Senator Russ Feingold, Senator Richard Lugar, and Rep. Tom Lantos

posted January 4, 2007 | Country: Libya
Re: Ashraf al-Hazouz | Valya Chervenyashka | Snezhanka Dmitrova | Nasya Nenova | Valentina Siropulo | Kristiana Valcheva

Read the letter on their behalf.

posted December 6, 2006 | Country: Libya
Re: Ashraf al-Hazouz | Valya Chervenyashka | Snezhanka Dmitrova | Nasya Nenova | Valentina Siropulo | Kristiana Valcheva

Read the article.

posted November 1, 2006 | Country: Syria
Re: Aref Dalilah

Read the letter on his behalf.

posted October 5, 2006 | Country: Libya
Re: Ashraf al-Hazouz | Valya Chervenyashka | Snezhanka Dmitrova | Nasya Nenova | Valentina Siropulo | Kristiana Valcheva

Read the letter.

posted September 28, 2006 | Country: Ethiopia
Re: Mesfin Woldemariam

Read address by his daughter, Meqdes Mesfin, given at the award ceremony.

posted September 5, 2006

This year's recipients of the award are Mesfin Woldemariam, Ethiopian geographer and prominent human rights defender and Joseph Birman, distinguished professor of Physics at City College of The City University of New York.

posted August 23, 2006 | Country: Cuba
Re: Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello

Read the article about Martha Beatriz Roque.