On Friday June 5, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded Tehran release the Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah. As we repor...

On May 16, 2020, Iran’s judiciary handed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah a five-year term for conspiring against national securit...

Iranian authorities released around 1,000 prisoners earlier this week in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Iran’s overpopulated...

ESW asks the officials of the Iranian government for the immediate and unconditional release of Farbia Adelkhah.

Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that on March 21, 2020 Iran freed Roland Marchal after a prisoner swap with France. Marchal was arr...

Last September, Reihana Emami Arandi boarded a flight from Tehran and made her way to Boston, eager to study theology at an Ivy League un...

The academic describes being kept in solitary confinement at Evin jail, Tehran

On January 20, 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officials at Logan International Airport denied entry to an Iranian national w...

We welcome the news that on December 6, 2019, XiYue Wang, a 37-year-old US citizen of Chinese descent who has been imprisoned in Iran sin...

Political hostage-takings are nothing new in Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has repeatedly taken foreign nationals and ...

Iranian authorities have released British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady who had been arrested on August 11 on “unspecified charges...

On October 16, 2019, France confirmed that a second French academic is being detained in Iran. They have condemned the arrest as “an unac...

Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege in Belgium, who was detained in August 2013 ...

On September 16, 2019 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the The European Parliam...

On August 14, 2019, the wife of British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady confirmed that her husband had been arrested on August 11 an...

On July 16, 2019, Iran's Judiciary has confirmed the arrest of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has become the latest dual na...

On May 9, 2019, Iranian student activist Parisa Rafiee, who is serving a seven-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, published...

In Brief Status: Released In October 2019, Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege...

It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran. O...

In the latest wave of oppression against Baha’i students in Iran, Anahita Horr, an undergraduate at the School of Architecture at Rasam I...