Editorial: Global science must stand up for Iran’s imprisoned scholars
For an all-too-brief period last month, it seemed that Morad Tahbaz, co-founder of conservation charity the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Tehran, might be free to go home after four years as a prisoner in Iran. Tahbaz’s charity had been monitoring the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah by laying camera traps. Iran’s judicial system decreed that this was spying — and Tahbaz, with seven colleagues, is serving a ten-year jail sentence.
One reason dual nationals are arrested is to be used as hostages to extract concessions from Western governments. But the majority of scholars in prison are Iranian nationals and their stories are not well known. They include Niloufar Bayani, a wildlife conservationist formerly with the United Nations. Younger people have been caught up, too, such as Ali Younesi, an award-winning computer-science student at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
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