More than a dozen intellectuals, including a painter and filmmaker, were summoned by the same office after Mr. Pourzand's arrest.
In an open letter to President Obama last spring, 23 former Central European heads of state and intellectuals, including a former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and a former Polish president, Lech Walesa, pointed out that after the war in Georgia last year Russia declared a "sphere of privileged interests" that could include their countries.
Prominent intellectuals, including Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Henry Louis Gates, chairman of Harvard's Afro-American studies department, were considering a class-action lawsuit asking for reparations, according to a March article in The Boston Globe.
And it was in this context of economic desperation and political gloom that, in 1986, a group of Serb intellectuals, including former dissidents, issued a manifesto blaming Tito for having blocked Serbia's legitimate claims and aspirations, particularly in Kosovo.
A number of intellectuals, including me, have put forward a series of petitions to enshrine human rights protections in the Constitution and make it genuinely democratic.
Within a short time, Gladstone's tirade was being echoed by eminent intellectuals, including Professor AE Freeman, also a stalwart of the Liberal party, and Goldwin Smith, professor of history at Oxford.
On April 6 several dozen Mexican intellectuals, including the novelists Carlos Fuentes and Laura Esquivel, signed an open letter in Mexico City newspapers calling on Governor Gonzalez to accept the human rights prosecutor's recommendation to indemnify Paulina.
That arrest evoked tremendous support, including a petition signed by a formidable array of American artists and intellectuals, including Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, and Susan Sontag.
It was founded in 1919 by a group of intellectuals, including John Dewey, the progressive historians Charles Beard and James Harvey Robinson and the economist Thorstein Veblen.
Later, as she advanced on her own work in linguistics, she formed part of a group of intellectuals, including Mr. Sollers, linked to the review Tel Quel.
From the beginning of the Iraq war, a number of officers and policy intellectuals, including Petraeus, believed that the war had to be fought a different way.
