February - 2021

We are scholars and students from various disciplines dedicated to protecting the human rights and academic freedom of our colleagues around the world.

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Protecting Freedom in Higher Education

Turkish Government’s Attack on Academic Autonomy Gears Up

Feb 17
2 min

Turkish Government’s Attack on Academic Autonomy Gears Up

Photo credit: Duvar Newspaper Following the unilateral governmental appointment of Professor Melih Bulu as president of Bogazici University on January 1, 2021, demonstrations continue and tensions between Turkey’s authoritarian AKP government and Bogazici faculty and students have escalated. Protests have spread around Istanbul and elsewhere; the faculty and students of several prominent universities in Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul have gathered together in support of the Boga

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Over 130 Scholars Sign Petition that Calls for Ending Harassment of Teng Biao

Feb 16
2 min

Over 130 Scholars Sign Petition that Calls for Ending Harassment of Teng Biao

Over 130 scholars signed a petition organized by Endangered Scholars Worldwide, which condemned the daily public harassment of the courageous Chinese human rights activist and professor, Dr. Teng Biao. Biao is a currently Grove Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College and Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. As we reported since December 1, 2020, a vocal group of Mandarin-speaking protesters has arrived every morning at Teng Biao’s family residence in West Win

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Students Take a Leading Role in Protests against the Coup in Myanmar

Feb 15
5 min

Students Take a Leading Role in Protests against the Coup in Myanmar

This article originally appeared on University World News by Naw Say Phaw Waa After Myanmar’s military seized power in the first week of February, the mass of Myanmar’s younger generation are protesting against the coup in the strongest movement led by young generation students since the country’s 1988 democracy uprising. They joined teachers, factory workers and different groups of civilians in mass demonstrations countrywide as the protests intensified this week. “The diffe

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British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran

Feb 8
2 min

British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran

A British-Iranian anthropologist who was sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran for “cooperating with a hostile state power” and undermining “the national security” has smuggled himself out of Iran, escaping over the country’s treacherous mountainous northern border. Kameel Ahmady described his journey as “very cold, very long, very dark and very scary.” On February 3, 2021, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Ahmady revealed that he was left with n

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