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The Galchenkos may well be the future of juggling, but right now they have a lot more than clubs to juggle. They have little money. They haven't seen their parents in three years. They have legal troubles too. Olga has successfully filed an Extraordinary Ability petition that will allow...
A group of Harvard professors have organized a petition to free a former colleague who was arrested on unspecified charges in Tehran this past April.
The petition is being circulated by Gurney Professor of History Roy W. P. Mottahedeh ’60, who said that “it is very improbable that he committed any crime by international legal standards.”
Other Harvard academics who have signed the petition include Divinity School Dean William A. Graham; Meyer Professor of Middle East History E. Roger Owen; Jacqueline Bhabha, the executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies; and Emran Qureshi, who is a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program...
Qureshi said that the group hopes to eventually present the petition to the Iranian Ambassador at the United Nations.