Fariba Adelkhah back to prison: call for action
Paris, 13. January 2022 – Sciences Po has learnt with indignation and anger that our colleague Fariba Adelkhah, a researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI), who has been detained in Iran for almost a thousand days, has been reincarcerated yesterday morning at the Evin prison after being under house arrest since October 2020. Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, President of the National Foundation of Political Science, Mathias Vicherat, President of Sciences Po, and the whole Sciences Po community strongly condemn this renewed incarceration and call for actions towards her immediate release.
The scholar of the CERI Sciences Po has been detained in Iran since June 2019 and sentenced to five years of imprisonment for "collusion against national security" and one year for “propaganda against the system”. This sentence, announced on May 16th, 2020, was transformed on October 3rd, 2020, into house arrest with an electronic bracelet.
A gathering in solidarity with Fariba will take place in front of the Sciences Po entrance, at 27 rue Saint Guillaume, on January 13th at 4pm.
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Today, half of Sciences Po’s 14,000 students are international and represent 150 nationalities. Education at Sciences Po is multidisciplinary, multilingual and outward looking. It also places great emphasis on professional exposure. Following completion of their degree, 80% of the graduates are hired within six months of graduation and 39% start their career abroad. Sciences Po holds a high standard of social responsibility, and plays a pioneering role in the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity in higher education. Sciences Po has an array of financial aid for students of all origins and 96% of the student body hold a scholarship. For more information on Sciences Po: www.sciencespo.fr/en
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Claire Flin / Valentine Contival : media@sciencespo.fr / 01 45 49 50 79
The scholar of the CERI Sciences Po has been detained in Iran since June 2019 and sentenced to five years of imprisonment for "collusion against national security" and one year for “propaganda against the system”. This sentence, announced on May 16th, 2020, was transformed on October 3rd, 2020, into house arrest with an electronic bracelet.
A gathering in solidarity with Fariba will take place in front of the Sciences Po entrance, at 27 rue Saint Guillaume, on January 13th at 4pm.
About Sciences Po
Founded in 1872, Sciences Po is France’s leading research university in the social sciences. Sciences Po offers degrees at the undergraduate, graduate and executive education levels, and developed 42 dual degree programmes with its network of 470 partner universities.
Today, half of Sciences Po’s 14,000 students are international and represent 150 nationalities. Education at Sciences Po is multidisciplinary, multilingual and outward looking. It also places great emphasis on professional exposure. Following completion of their degree, 80% of the graduates are hired within six months of graduation and 39% start their career abroad. Sciences Po holds a high standard of social responsibility, and plays a pioneering role in the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity in higher education. Sciences Po has an array of financial aid for students of all origins and 96% of the student body hold a scholarship. For more information on Sciences Po: www.sciencespo.fr/en
Media contacts
Claire Flin / Valentine Contival : media@sciencespo.fr / 01 45 49 50 79
