More articles about the Iraqi academics.

Hundreds protest attacks on intellectuals in Missan

Missan - Voices of Iraq

Missan, Dec 2, 2007 (VOI) – Hundreds of university students and professors took to the streets in Amara city protesting the abduction of a technical institute dean and urging the government to put an end to mounting attacks against Iraqi intellectuals.

"Today's demonstration denounces attacks against the Iraqi intelligentsia, which security forces remain unable to halt…," a professor from Missan University, Dr. Bassim al-Rubaie, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

"Supported by foreign bodies, organized gangs from all over Iraq are seeking to empty Iraqi universities and institutes of professors. Other gangs aim at financial gains from the release of hostages," al-Rubaie indicated.

Al-Rubaie called on the security apparatus to provide adequate protection for Iraqi scholars, university professors, and journalists and to put them on equal terms with politicians.

The demonstration comes following the abduction of the dean of the central Amara's technical institute, Dr. Raed Saei al-Saaedi, by unknown gunmen while he was en-route back home on Saturday noon.

Amara, the capital city of Missan province, lies 390 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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Baghdad, Oct 23, 2007 (VOI) – A man suspected of involvement in the killing of university professor Hamid Salman Hassan and his son in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Mahdiya was arrested, an official spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, Brigadier Qasim Ata said on Tuesday.

"A force from the national police's 7^th brigade has managed to arrest Hassan Ali Muhammad Saleh al-Kargholi, a wanted terrorist who is involved in the killing of university professor Hamid Salman Hassan and his son in al-Mahdiya neighborhood," read a statement released by the Baghdad's operations command, which the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) received a copy of.
"The terrorist confessed to committing several crimes with his terrorist group, among which was the killing of the university academic and his son," the statement added.

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Kidnapped professor found dead in eastern Baghdad

Baghdad, Oct 19, 2007 (VOI)- The body of a former professor at the Baghdad University was found a few hours after being kidnapped from his house in eastern Baghdad.

"Unknown armed men on Thursday morning stormed the house of Dr. Mohammad Kazem al-Ettabi, former professor at the Baghdad University, in al-Amana neighborhood near the Sadr City in eastern Baghdad and took him to unknown place," one of his relatives, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) on Friday.
"His body was found a few hours after being kidnapped in Ur neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad," he added.
No word was available from the security authorities on the incident.
The man was born in 1947. He is married with four sons and three daughters.