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    The Disappearance of Uyghur Intellectuals and Cultural Elites
    Ebby Abramson
    • Dec 15, 2021
    • 5 min

    The Disappearance of Uyghur Intellectuals and Cultural Elites

    Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of intellectuals, cultural elites, and university professors from China's Uyghur...
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    Whither Hungary: Academic Freedom and Authoritarianism
    Dolunay Bulut
    • Nov 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Whither Hungary: Academic Freedom and Authoritarianism

    Victor Orbán-led Hungarian government has continued to increase pressure on opposition parties, civil society, and the media. Freedom of...
    8 views0 comments
    Over 130 Scholars Sign Petition that Calls for Ending Harassment of Teng Biao
    Ebby Abramson
    • Feb 16, 2021
    • 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...
    3,804 views0 comments
    Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jan 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

    Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and condemns in no uncertain terms the daily public harassment of the courageous and...
    15,285 views0 comments
    Hong Kong Universities Fire Professors Who Led Protests
    Ebby Abramson
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    Hong Kong Universities Fire Professors Who Led Protests

    —We Must Take a Stand or Risk Becoming Complicit with Chinese Government Interference A leading Hong Kong university has fired its law...
    17 views0 comments
    Hong Kong Universities Are Being Strangled; We Must Take a Stand
    Ebby Abramson
    • Nov 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    Hong 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,...
    1,225 views0 comments
    Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
    Endangered Scholars Worldwide
    • Jun 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

    By Jerome A. Cohen* Here is an important, thoughtful and balanced essay by Professors Marina Svensson and Eva Pils, Academic Freedom:...
    10 views0 comments
    The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region Continues
    Ebby Abramson
    • Feb 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region Continues

    Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of university professors within China’s Uyghur minority who have been imprisoned...
    7,124 views0 comments
    ESW Stands With Umbrella Nine
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jan 24, 2019
    • 5 min

    ESW Stands With Umbrella Nine

    On November 19, 2018, the “Umbrella Nine” were brought before judges to account for their actions during the 2014 student-led protest...
    56 views0 comments
    Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities
    Ebby Abramson
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 5 min

    Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities

    As concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related regions of the...
    10 views0 comments
    Five Uyghur Professors from Xinjiang University Held in Political "Re-education Camps"
    Ebby Abramson
    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Five 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...
    34 views0 comments
    We Shouldn’t Allow Ilham Tohti to Become a Second Liu Xiaobo
    Ebby Abramson
    • Aug 2, 2018
    • 4 min

    We Shouldn’t Allow Ilham Tohti to Become a Second Liu Xiaobo

    Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights activist and critic of the Communist Party of China, has closely followed the case of Ilham Tohti, an...
    5 views0 comments
    After Liu Xia’s Freedom, it is Time to Redouble the Call for Others’ Freedom in China
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jul 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    After Liu Xia’s Freedom, it is Time to Redouble the Call for Others’ Freedom in China

    On July 10, 2018, Chinese authorities finally ended their de facto house arrest of Liu Xia, a painter, poet, and the widow of Liu...
    10 views0 comments
    Liu Xia, Widow of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo Leaves China for Germany
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jul 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Liu Xia, Widow of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo Leaves China for Germany

    Liu Xia, the widow of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, arrived in Berlin, having left Beijing after almost eight years of living under...
    4 views0 comments
    Chinese Dissidents Die After Being Denied Medical Care
    Ebby Abramson
    • Nov 21, 2017
    • 2 min

    Chinese Dissidents Die After Being Denied Medical Care

    Less than four months after the death from liver cancer of scholar, writer, and Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, another Chinese...
    4 views0 comments
    "He’s Doing Poorly," Says Wife of Princeton Student Jailed in Iran
    Ebby Abramson
    • Sep 18, 2017
    • 3 min

    "He’s Doing Poorly," Says Wife of Princeton Student Jailed in Iran

    Iran’s imprisonment of Xiyue Wang, a naturalized United States citizen from China who is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton...
    4 views0 comments
    Academics Targeted After Student Activists are Jailed
    Ebby Abramson
    • Sep 3, 2017
    • 4 min

    Academics Targeted After Student Activists are Jailed

    In the wake of the internationally-condemned jailing of the former student leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 student movement, including...
    6 views0 comments
    Iran Sentences Princeton Graduate Student to 10 Years for Espionage
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jul 17, 2017
    • 2 min

    Iran Sentences Princeton Graduate Student to 10 Years for Espionage

    An Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency...
    7 views0 comments
    Liu Xiaobo's Friends Renew Calls for Greater Democracy in China in Wake of Nobel Peace Prize
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jul 16, 2017
    • 2 min

    Liu 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...
    7 views0 comments
    Chinese Authorities Deny Friends Access to Dying Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
    Ebby Abramson
    • Jul 10, 2017
    • 3 min

    Chinese Authorities Deny Friends Access to Dying Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo

    Friends of China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, have issued a plea to Chinese authorities to be allowed...
    5 views0 comments
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