Dear All
Please see below for a note from Peter Marcuse - regarding Kian Tajbakhsh
who is a reviewer for Planning Theory and an excellent scholar. He has been
arrested in Iran and there is a petition that follows.
Kind regards
Dr. Nancy Holman
Programme Director, MSc Regional & Urban Planning Studies-
London School of Economics
+44 (0)207 9557745
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From: Planning Educators Electronic Mail Network
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Sent: 14 July 2009 01:18
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Subject: [Fwd: Fw: Petition for arrested Iranian scholar Kian Tajbakhsh]
Folks,
Kian Tajbakhsh got his PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia and is a serious
scholar, writer and teacher, as well as a personal friend of many of us.
There's current background at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090711/wl_time/08599190987000, and Wikipedia
has a good entry.
I urge signature on the petition. Its the least we can do. Perhaps others
have further useful information.
Peter Marcuse
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*Sent:* Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:04:29 PM
*Subject:* Petition for arrested Iranian scholar Kian Tajbakhsh
Dear friends of Social Research,
We are contacting you because you previously signed our petition on behalf
of imprisoned Chinese scholar and Social Research author Liu Xiaobo. We
apologize for contacting you again so soon afterwards, but another grave
situation has arisen for which we urgently need your support. On July 9th,
2009 Iranian-American Social Research author Kian Tajbakhsh was arrested by
Iranian security services and is currently being held at an undisclosed
location. Although Kian had no involvement in the recent protests
surrounding the contested re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he like the
many hundreds of people who have been arrested in Iran in recent weeks is at
serious risk of being tortured in order to extract a forced confession.
Please take a moment to click on the following link and sign the online
petition calling for Kian's release:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5130/t/3443/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=42
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It would also be of great help if you could forward this email to friends
who you think might be willing to join us in this effort.
Thank you,
Social Research
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Peter Marcuse
Professor of Urban Planning Emeritus
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
New York, N>Y. 10027
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