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...Kaveh L. Afrasiabi named Harvard University, Professor of the History of Religion and Islamic Studies William A. Graham and Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh--who are both affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)--as defendants...
Citing two letters written to The Harvard Crimson as partial evidence, he is seeking damages for statements made by the professors prior to and following his January arrest and incarceration for suspected extortion. The charges against Afrasiabi were eventually dropped last...
...This lawsuit is only act one of my efforts toward redemption," Afrasiabi said yesterday. "I have a much larger lawsuit pending against the people involved in those frivolous charges...
...Afrasiabi said in the interview that he intends to sue the Harvard University Police Department for what he describes as his "false arrest," as well as several other yetunnamed individuals...
Meanwhile, the people at The Crimson and its readers should be on guard about the unthinkable, the specter of an intolerant fascism at Harvard. --Kaveh L. Afrasiabi Former post-doctoral fellow