A prominent
Chinese scholar who was at an academic conference in the United States to talk
excluded from leaving China America. Professor Cu Weeping, a poet and
professor at the Beijing Film Academy, had planned to lecture at Harvard
University and attended a conference sponsored by the Association for Asian
Studies. But the director of her school said she was forbidden to travel.
The New York Times reported that Cu believed she was being punished by the Chinese authorities for their comments on human rights and freedom of speech.
Most recently, included her activities take social criticism on her blog, is sponsoring a seminar on the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests and send Twitter messages about the jailing of Lou Xian, a writer who has been convicted of subversion last year for demanding increased freedoms.
The professor stared problems with the authorities on several occasions in the past in the face. During the 20th anniversary of the crackdown in Tienanmen Square, police officials a few days outside her apartment Beijing stationed.
The New York Times
Iran: Nuclear scientist defects to US
An Iranian nuclear scientist who defected missing since June 2009 after the US. According to ABC News Shah ram Amur, a researcher at Male Attar University Terran's disappeared in Saudi Arabia while on a Muslim pilgrimage. Amur is almost 10 months later in the US, reports help to close the CIA in its efforts to Iran's nuclear program.
The New York Times reported that Cu believed she was being punished by the Chinese authorities for their comments on human rights and freedom of speech.
Most recently, included her activities take social criticism on her blog, is sponsoring a seminar on the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests and send Twitter messages about the jailing of Lou Xian, a writer who has been convicted of subversion last year for demanding increased freedoms.
The professor stared problems with the authorities on several occasions in the past in the face. During the 20th anniversary of the crackdown in Tienanmen Square, police officials a few days outside her apartment Beijing stationed.
The New York Times
Iran: Nuclear scientist defects to US
An Iranian nuclear scientist who defected missing since June 2009 after the US. According to ABC News Shah ram Amur, a researcher at Male Attar University Terran's disappeared in Saudi Arabia while on a Muslim pilgrimage. Amur is almost 10 months later in the US, reports help to close the CIA in its efforts to Iran's nuclear program.
Iran has accused the US of abducting Amir but the Washington any knowledge of the scientific and denied the CIA refused to comment on the reports. ABC News said the scientist has been extensively debriefed and helped to confirm US intelligence assessments about the Iranian nuclear program. His defection was apparently the result of a wider operation including the US is approaching Iranian scientists to try to persuade them to walk on.
BBC News
India: Professors grilled over links to rebels
A Delhi university professor was detained by police on 4 April and questioned for more than three hours for suspected links to Mao. Sunil Medial, an assistant professor of Hindi at Deal Singh College, picked up at 04:00 by the police from his residence where Maoist literature was found, reported The Telegraph. He was released after three hours of questioning.
Medial denied involvement in Nasalizes, a group of far left radical communists supporting Maoist ideology. He stressed he was a member of several organizations such as the right Democratic Front of India. Delhi Police allegedly already set up a list of Maoist sympathizers among academics and writers in the city.
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