Missing Uyghur Scholar Serving Life Sentence in Xinjiang
Photo credit: Human Rights Watch On September 21, 2023, Rahile Dawut, a renowned scholar of Uyghur folklore, confirmed to be serving a...
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Kennedy McCutchen
- Mar 14
- 3 min
Increased Surveillance and Censorship in Universities After China’s White Paper Protests
In late 2022, China’s citizenry was swept with an overwhelming sense of bitterness and frustration towards their government’s radical...
Ebby Abramson
- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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