Today marks one-year anniversary of the crackdown on Belarussian students for their nonviolent protests across the country over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. Since the allegedly fraudulent presidential elections in August 2020, thousands of protestors assembled in the streets of Minsk and other major cities, demanding that Lukashenko leave office. Many of the protests were organized by students and took place at university campuses. Belarussian forces arr

Endangered Scholars Worldwide recently learned that on July 8, 2021, 59-year-old Abduljalil Al-Singace, former head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Bahrain, human rights defender and blogger who is serving a life sentence for his role in Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising during the 2011 Arab Spring, went on a hunger strike. He started the strike in protest of the treatment he is receiving in prison: The lack of healthcare, harassment from the prison guard