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Panel Discussion on Imprisoned Iranian Physicist Omid Kokabee
MIT, 32-155, June 14th, 7 p.m.
Featuring:
-CUNY physics professor Eugene Chudnovsky
-Iranian doctors and former prisoners Arash and Kamiar Alaei
Background: Information on the various speakers (from Wikipedia and various news outlets) can be found here:
News articles on Omid may be found here (listed reverse-chonologically):
http://www.nature.com/news/iranian-physicist-sentenced-to-prison-1.10642
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/a-year-in-jail-without-trial-for-iranian-student-accused-of-spying.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/09/iran-reschedules-espionage-trial.html
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201108/iranianphysics.cfm
http://spie.org/x57020.xml
http://lehman.edu/academics/physics-astronomy/fac-chudnovsky.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Chudnovsky
On Kamiar and Arash Alaei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamiar_and_Arash_Alaei_incident
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/in-iran-a-brotherhood-of-doctors-and-patients/