...Among the specific charges against the professor are espionage, leading an illegal organization, providing a banned organization with information and financial support, calling for the suspension of the constitution, preventing state institutions and authorities from performing their functions, harming national unity and social harmony, and trying to change the government by force.
"It was a shock. I never thought they would go this far, to this level of fabrication," Mr. Shahin told The Chronicle from the United States, where he was attending a conference when news of the charges became public, in late January...