Free Kian '09 » New School for Social Research http://www.freekian09.org Campaign to Release Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh from detention Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:15:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Politics of Resistance Conference (Source: New School for Social Research) http://www.freekian09.org/2010/03/12/politics-of-resistance-conference-source-new-school-for-social-research/ http://www.freekian09.org/2010/03/12/politics-of-resistance-conference-source-new-school-for-social-research/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:24:17 +0000 admin http://www.freekian09.org/?p=862 The New School for Social Research in New York City, where Kian served as a professor for many years, organized a conference on February 12 dedicated to Kian, entitled “Iran: Politics of Resistance.” The full conference proceedings are now available online here.

Numerous speakers were featured, for example including Kian’s former colleague Ramin Jahanbegloo and Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

[Link to full conference]

]]> http://www.freekian09.org/2010/03/12/politics-of-resistance-conference-source-new-school-for-social-research/feed/ 0 Iran: The Politics of Resistance (Source: New School for Social Research) http://www.freekian09.org/2010/02/10/iran-the-politics-of-resistance-source-new-school-for-social-research/ http://www.freekian09.org/2010/02/10/iran-the-politics-of-resistance-source-new-school-for-social-research/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:46:03 +0000 admin http://www.freekian09.org/?p=853 A conference dedicated to Kian entitled “Iran: The Politics of Resistance” is scheduled to be held at the New School in New York City this Friday, Febraury 12.

[Conference program]

]]> http://www.freekian09.org/2010/02/10/iran-the-politics-of-resistance-source-new-school-for-social-research/feed/ 0 Arien Mack, Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, appeals for Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh’s release http://www.freekian09.org/2009/10/06/arien-mack-professor-of-psychology-at-the-new-school-for-social-research-appeals-for-dr-kian-tajbakhshs-release/ http://www.freekian09.org/2009/10/06/arien-mack-professor-of-psychology-at-the-new-school-for-social-research-appeals-for-dr-kian-tajbakhshs-release/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:13:11 +0000 Darius http://www.freekian09.org/?p=610

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]]> http://www.freekian09.org/2009/10/06/jonathan-fanton-former-president-of-the-new-school-and-former-president-of-the-john-d-and-catherine-t-macarthur-foundation-appeals-for-dr-kian-tajbakhshs-release/feed/ 0 Release Kian Tajbakhsh! (Source: New York Review of Books) http://www.freekian09.org/2009/09/11/release-kian-tajbakhsh-source-new-york-review-of-books/ http://www.freekian09.org/2009/09/11/release-kian-tajbakhsh-source-new-york-review-of-books/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:16:55 +0000 admin http://www.freekian09.org/?p=576 The NYRB has published the petition calling for Kian’s release organized by the New School for Social Research and signed by Juan Cole, University of Michigan; Arien Mack, New School for Social Research; Steven Pinker, Harvard University; Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and more than 1,000 others:

“We, the undersigned, are compelled to express our outrage at the arrest on July 9 of the noted Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh. Though not involved in the recent protests in Iran, Kian was arrested in his home by agents of the Iranian security police and is being detained in an unknown location.

Kian Tajbakhsh spent four months in prison in solitary confinement in 2007 on unspecified charges of trying to foment a “velvet revolution” against the Islamic regime. After his release from prison, Tajbakhsh decided to stay and work in Iran and deliberately avoided politics. We believe that Kian is again being held in solitary confinement and may be being tortured in order to extract a false confession.

We strongly deplore and condemn the detention and persecution of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh and call upon all international organizations, academic and professional associations, and other groups and individuals devoted to the promotion and defense of human rights to strongly protest and condemn his arbitrary detention, to call for his immediate and unconditional release, and to urge the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect, guarantee, and implement the provisions and principles of human rights as specified in international conventions and treaties to which Iran has long been a signatory.”

[Full article]

]]> http://www.freekian09.org/2009/09/11/release-kian-tajbakhsh-source-new-york-review-of-books/feed/ 0 President Bob Kerrey of The New School Makes Appeal for Kian Tajbakhsh’s Release http://www.freekian09.org/2009/09/07/president-bob-kerrey-of-the-new-school-makes-appeal-for-kian-tajbakhshs-release/ http://www.freekian09.org/2009/09/07/president-bob-kerrey-of-the-new-school-makes-appeal-for-kian-tajbakhshs-release/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:17:13 +0000 Darius http://www.freekian09.org/?p=528

]]> http://www.freekian09.org/2009/09/07/president-bob-kerrey-of-the-new-school-makes-appeal-for-kian-tajbakhshs-release/feed/ 0 Family and Friends of Detained American-Iranian Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh Decry Decision by Iranian Authorities to Refuse to Receive Petition Calling for his Release http://www.freekian09.org/2009/07/28/family-and-friends-of-detained-american-iranian-scholar-kian-tajbakhsh-decry-decision-by-iranian-authorities-to-refuse-to-receive-petition-calling-for-his-release/ http://www.freekian09.org/2009/07/28/family-and-friends-of-detained-american-iranian-scholar-kian-tajbakhsh-decry-decision-by-iranian-authorities-to-refuse-to-receive-petition-calling-for-his-release/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:16:18 +0000 admin http://www.freekian09.org/?p=300 Officials at the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York have refused to receive a petition including some 800 signatures by individuals calling for the unconditional release of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh from detention in Iran. Those signing the petition, organized by the New School for Social Research in New York, “strongly deplore and condemn [the] detention and persecution of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh…call for his immediate and unconditional release, and urge the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect, guarantee, and implement the provisions and principles of human rights as specified in international conventions and treaties to which Iran has long been a signatory.”

New School Professor Arien Mack confirmed that an attempt was made to deliver two envelopes containing the petition, addressed to Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamene’i care of the Ambassador, to the Iranian mission to the UN on Wednesday, July 22, but the envelopes were refused. The New School left a message with the Mission’s legal department inquiring about the refusal, but has yet to receive a response.

Other prominent groups including the 3,300 members of PEN American Center, the International Cooperation Agency of Dutch Municipalities, Columbia University, and the Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives in Pakistan have called for Kian’s release. PEN, an international organization of writers dedicated to protecting freedom of expression, stated in their appeal that they are “deeply concerned that Kian Tajbakhsh has been swept up in a crackdown on peaceful scholars and journalists following the disputed presidential elections in violation of their right to freedom of expression, as guaranteed in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a signatory.”

Iranian agents arrested Kian Tajbakhsh, an American citizen, and took him away from his wife and small daughter at their home in Tehran at 9:00pm on July 9, 2009. We still have no information about where Kian was taken. We are concerned that he is being held in an attempt by the Iranian authorities to obtain forced statements from him to use in a televised show trial to falsely accuse ‘foreign powers’ of interference in Iran’s postelection crisis. Such statements are repeatedly extracted under conditions of torture for the sole purpose of staging televised show trials in an attempt to deceive the Iranian public.

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]]> http://www.freekian09.org/2009/07/28/family-and-friends-of-detained-american-iranian-scholar-kian-tajbakhsh-decry-decision-by-iranian-authorities-to-refuse-to-receive-petition-calling-for-his-release/feed/ 0 Online petition setup by New School for Social Research http://www.freekian09.org/2009/07/13/online-petition-setup-by-new-school-for-social-research/ http://www.freekian09.org/2009/07/13/online-petition-setup-by-new-school-for-social-research/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:06:13 +0000 admin http://www.freekian09.org/?p=229 The New School for Social Research has setup an online petition for the release of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh on their website.
Please sign their petition. (Don’t forget that we have an online petition as well.)

Below is an excerpt from their petition:

… We strongly deplore and condemn his detention and persecution of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh and call upon all international organizations, academic and professional associations, and other groups and individuals devoted to the promotion and defense of human rights to strongly protest and condemn his arbitrary detention, to call for his immediate and unconditional release, and to urge the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect, guarantee, and implement the provisions and principles of human rights as specified in international conventions and treaties to which Iran has long been a signatory.

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