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 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 May 17, 2006 | Country: Great Britain

Read the May 2002 statement.

posted September 29, 2005

Two activists who have long fought for the rights of scientists, especially in the Middle East, received the 2005 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award at the Academy's Annual Meeting on Thursday, September 29, 2005.

posted April 28, 2005 | Country: Great Britain

The Committee on Human Rights of Scientists has released the text calling upon the organization to “rescind and withdraw its call for a boycott of Israeli universities.

posted April 20, 2005 | Country: Israel

A group of members of the Association of University Teachers Annual Council, being held this month in Eastbourne, England, debate whether to boycott three Israeli universities (Haifa University, Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem).

posted April 6, 2005 | Country: Cuba

Ex-prisoners of conscience and members of the executive board of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba, Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello and Rene Gomez Manzano, denounced from Havana that their telephones are interrupted.

posted March 8, 2005 | Country: Israel

Read the full International Council for Science statement.

posted October 26, 2004 | Country: Vietnam
Re: Nguyen Dan Que

Read the press release.

posted July 21, 2004 | Country: Vietnam
Re: Nguyen Dan Que

Read the press release.

posted March 11, 2004 | Country: Cuba

The Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces the ban on travel to Cuba, recently denied licenses to a group of 70 American doctors and researchers

posted November 3, 2003 | Country: United States
Re: Thomas Butler

Read the statement.

posted September 21, 2003 | Country: United States
Re: Thomas Butler

Read the press release.

posted September 1, 2003

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and sociology professor at the American University in Cairo, accepts his award. Read his statement.