Ebby AbramsonNov 19, 20192 minHong Kong Universities Are Being Strangled; We Must Take a Stand Hong Kong’s universities, long a beacon of academic freedom, are under threat and risk losing their autonomy. On November 18, 2019, polic...
Ebby AbramsonJun 20, 20191 minAcademic Freedom in Hong KongBy Jerome A. Cohen* Here is an important, thoughtful and balanced essay by Professors Marina Svensson and Eva Pils, Academic Freedom: uni...
Ebby AbramsonFeb 2, 20192 minThe Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region ContinuesSpecific details are emerging about an alarming number of university professors within China’s Uyghur minority who have been imprisoned o...
Ebby AbramsonJan 24, 20195 minESW Stands With Umbrella NineOn November 19, 2018, the “Umbrella Nine” were brought before judges to account for their actions during the 2014 student-led protest mov...
Ebby AbramsonNov 28, 20185 minStatement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic MinoritiesAs concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related regions of the world...
Ebby AbramsonOct 4, 20182 minFive Uyghur Professors from Xinjiang University Held in Political "Re-education Camps"At least five ethnic Uyghur professors from Xinjiang University in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being held in politic...
Ebby AbramsonAug 2, 20184 minWe Shouldn’t Allow Ilham Tohti to Become a Second Liu XiaoboHu Jia, a Chinese human rights activist and critic of the Communist Party of China, has closely followed the case of Ilham Tohti, an outs...
Ebby AbramsonJul 19, 20184 minAfter Liu Xia’s Freedom, it is Time to Redouble the Call for Others’ Freedom in ChinaOn July 10, 2018, Chinese authorities finally ended their de facto house arrest of Liu Xia, a painter, poet, and the widow of Liu Xiaobo—...
Ebby AbramsonJul 15, 20181 minLiu Xia, Widow of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo Leaves China for GermanyLiu Xia, the widow of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, arrived in Berlin, having left Beijing after almost eight years of living under h...
Ebby AbramsonNov 21, 20172 minChinese Dissidents Die After Being Denied Medical CareLess than four months after the death from liver cancer of scholar, writer, and Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, another Chinese dissiden...
Ebby AbramsonSep 18, 20173 min"He’s Doing Poorly," Says Wife of Princeton Student Jailed in IranIran’s imprisonment of Xiyue Wang, a naturalized United States citizen from China who is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton Universi...
Ebby AbramsonSep 3, 20174 minAcademics Targeted After Student Activists are JailedIn the wake of the internationally-condemned jailing of the former student leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 student movement, including electe...
Ebby AbramsonJul 17, 20172 minIran Sentences Princeton Graduate Student to 10 Years for EspionageAn Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency report...
Ebby AbramsonJul 16, 20172 minLiu Xiaobo's Friends Renew Calls for Greater Democracy in China in Wake of Nobel Peace Prize Friends of China's most prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo have accused the Chinese Government of violating human rights after the activist d...
Ebby AbramsonJul 10, 20173 minChinese Authorities Deny Friends Access to Dying Nobel Laureate Liu XiaoboFriends of China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, have issued a plea to Chinese authorities to be allowed...
Ebby AbramsonJun 26, 20171 minChinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Released from Prison with Terminal CancerChinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer...
Ebby AbramsonMar 27, 20171 minChina Bars Professor at Australian University from LeavingAn Australian academic researching human rights and barred from leaving China by state security agents on suspicion of endangering nation...
Ebby AbramsonOct 18, 20162 minJewher Ilham—"My Father Shouldn't Be in Jail At All"The daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti has spoken out in support of his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater autono...
Ebby AbramsonOct 9, 20162 minSix Years On, Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate's Family Faces Severe Hardship & Social IsolationSix years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo seems unlikely to be given a chance to "seek medical p...
Ebby AbramsonAug 15, 20161 minChina Sentences Lawyer to 7 Years in Jail for SubversionA Chinese court sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng to seven years in prison. Zhou’s Beijing-based law firm, Fengrui, has defended some of Chin...