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

Photo by Bianet Following the first court-approved imprisonment of a Peace signatory, Professor Fusun Ustel, on May 8, 2019, the...

On April 1, 2019, the University of Tokyo started a Kurdish language program led by Vakkak Colak and is currently teaching Kurdish to 40...

On April 19, 2019, the Regional Administrative Court in Ankara removed the indefinite ban on any LGBTQIA events in the city, which was...

On April 10, 2019, Scholars at Risk (SAR) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Egypt (AFTE) have filed a joint...

On March 21, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and...

On March 25, 2019, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Mohammed Al-Qahtani, a prominent Saudi economist’s, health is deteriorating...

In a collective letter with other organizations, the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies expresses grave concern...

H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey Dear...

Political scientist Füsun Üstel, a professor who retired from Galatasaray University in Istanbul, was among the first of 1,128 scholars...

The trials of Academics for Peace continues in Istanbul Heavy Penal Courts. As of February 20, 2019, 479 of 2,212 peace academics have...

The New University in Exile Consortium is an initiative created by The New School, home of the first University in Exile, formed in 1933...

Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of university professors within China’s Uyghur minority who have been imprisoned...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to be extremely concerned about the Turkish government’s systematic targeting of the country’s...

On November 19, 2018, the “Umbrella Nine” were brought before judges to account for their actions during the 2014 student-led protest...

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

On October 1, 2018, Jarosław Gowin, the Polish Minister of Science and Education, signed a new law known as the Constitution for Science...

Budapest's Central European University (CEU), which has fought for 20 months to secure its continued presence in the Hungarian capital,...

As concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related regions of the...

On November 16, 2018 Turkish authorities arrested 13 people, including two academics from Bogazici and Bilgi universities and a group of...