Message sent on behalf of the Canadian Political Science Association
Alexander Sodiqov, a PhD student at the University of Toronto was arrested while conducting interviews in Tajikistan for a project on Emerging Power Conflict Management run by John Heathershaw (University of Exeter, United Kingdom).
Even though the Canadian Political Science Association is adopting and implementing other institutional measures of support, our priority today is to provide our members with all the available information about our fellow academic researcher Alexander Sodiqov’s detention and encourage them to forward the following links to all their networks.
Links to the story:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/06/studying-tajikistan-turns-dangerous
http://en.rsf.org/tadjikistan-visiting-researcher-held-after-24-06-2014,46512.html
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68671
The petition in support of Alexander Sodiqov:
https://scholarsforsodiqov.wufoo.com/forms/scholars-for-sodiqov-petition/
Official campaign site for the release of Alex Sodiqov
John Heathershaw’s statement:
http://news.tj/en/news/statement-dr-john-heathershaw-regarding-detention-alexander-sodiqov-khorog
Message from Amnesty international Canada:
http://www.amnesty.ca/get-involved/take-action-now/tajikistan-university-of-toronto-student-at-risk
Joint statement of concern of CESS, ASN, ESCAS, ASEEES: http://centraleurasia.org/thecessblog/2014/06/24/statement-concerning-the-detention-of-academic-researcher-alexander-sodiqov/
The Guardian
CTV News
For more information please contact Edward Schatz, Chair, Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga (Alexander’s supervisor) at ed.schatz@utoronto.ca.
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