90 Students Arrested in Iran as Protests Continue
According to BBC Persian, the number of students detained has risen to 90 as protests continue in Iran. At least fourteen were arrested...
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Ebby Abramson
Dec 24, 20173 min read
UN Human Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Ahmadreza Djalali
On December 20, 2017, four UN human rights experts called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 13, 20172 min read
Urgent—Iran Upholds Death Sentenced for Professor Ahmadreza Djalali
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic convicted of espionage, as...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 25, 20173 min read
ESW Stands With Academics for Peace in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 19, 20172 min read
Nuriye Gülmen is Now 37 Kg and at Point of No Return
Veli Saçılık, a friend of the Turkish professor Nuriye Gülmen who started a hunger strike in order to protest her dismissal under state...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 23, 20173 min read
Urgent—Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Sentenced to Death
A judge in Tehran has ordered the death penalty for Iranian disaster-medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, according to his wife, Vida...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 28, 20172 min read
ESW Statement of Behalf of Merera Gudina
It has been over eight months since Ethiopian security forces arrested opposition leader Professor Merera Gudina upon his return to the...
Dolunay Bulut
May 12, 20171 min read
ESW Stands with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça
Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 14, 20175 min read
URGENT CONCERN FOR RIGHTS DEFENDER ON HUNGER STRIKE OVER UNLAWFUL DETENTION
Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, has been unlawfully detained for over two months. He is being held by...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 30, 20173 min read
NYU PhD Student Narges Bayani Detained At JFK
Narges Bayani, a PhD student at NYU’s Institute for the Study Of The Ancient World, was among those detained at JFK. According to a...
Dolunay Bulut
Jan 25, 20172 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Urges Support for Turkish Higher Education
As the sixth month of the emergency rule ends in Turkey, the government does not seem willing to end its witch-hunt, which has resulted...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 24, 20161 min read
Joint Letter of Appeal on Behalf of Serkan Golge, Imprisoned NASA Physicist
On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 6, 20162 min read
ESW Stands with "Academics For Peace" in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 2, 20163 min read
Petition—The War on Academics in Turkey
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned over recent reports from Turkey regarding the plight of the academic community. Since...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 10, 20161 min read
ESW Concerned Over Ongoing Detention of Homa Hoodfar in Iran
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is gravely concerned over the ongoing detention of Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor of...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 29, 20161 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Supports Academics Under Attack in Turkey
In the latest example of the Turkish government's pressure on scholars, 1,200 academics from 89 universities who signed a statement that...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 24, 20162 min read
Turkish Government Threatens Academic Freedom
The Turkish government has taken drastic steps toward restricting academic freedoms, arresting 27 Turkish academics and launching...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 21, 20161 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Condemns Terrorist Attack at Bacha Khan University
Endangered Scholars Worldwide condemns the terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in the city of Charsadda, Pakistan, in which armed...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 3, 20152 min read
Open Letter in Support of Jason Rezaian
Noam Chomsky, Jerome A. Cohen, Juan Cole,Simon Critchley, and Wendy Doniger, et al.* To the Iranian authorities: We, the undersigned, are...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 26, 20151 min read
Day 250 of #SingaceHungerStrike—Will You Write?
Today marks day 250 of Abdul Jalil Al-Singace's hunger strike in protest of the torture and mistreatment of prisoners at Bahrain's Jau...
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