۱۲۰ چهره دانشگاهی و فعال حقوق بشر از سازمان ملل خواستند تا از ایران بخواهد شی‌وانگ را آزاد کند

120 Academics and Activists Join UN in Calling on Iran to Free Princeton Scholar Xiyue Wang

۱۲۰ چهره دانشگاهی و فعال حقوق بشر از سازمان ملل خواستند تا از ایران بخواهد شی‌وانگ را آزاد کند

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American scholar Xiyue Wang, who was arrested in Tehran by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry during the summer of 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison on unsubstantiated espionage charges a year later. The signatories, including prominent Iranian scholars and the Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, made the call in a letter addressed to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which recently found that there “no legal basis” for Wang’s arrest and detention and called for his immediate release.

*The letter has been published below in both English and Farsi in its original form with no modifications apart from including the full hyperlinks.

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Dear members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention,

We the undersigned, a group of Iranian academics and human rights activists residing outside the country, wish to thank the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for investigating the imprisonment of Mr. Xiyue Wang in Iran and concluding that there is “no legal basis for his arrest and detention.” The New York Times covers the story with more details.