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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.”
THE HARVARD PETITION
This sentiment was echoed by Divinity School Dean William A. Graham, a signer of the petition, who said that he was “baffled as [to] why anyone would feel this man should be imprisoned.”
Other Harvard academics who signed the petition include Meyer Professor of Middle East History E. Roger Owen and Jacqueline Bhabha, the executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies.