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UN Human Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Ahmadreza Djalali
On December 20, 2017, four UN human rights experts called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 24, 20173 min read
Iranian TV Broadcasts Purported Confession of Iranian-Swedish Academic Sentenced to Death
Iranian state TV has aired what it calls a confession by Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been sentenced to death...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 17, 20173 min read
PETITION TO IRAN TO OVERTURN PROFESSOR AHMADREZA DJALALI’S DEATH SENTENCE
We, the undersigned, are compelled to express our outrage at the arrest, conviction, and sentencing of Iranian professor Ahmadreza...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 13, 20172 min read
Urgent—Iran Upholds Death Sentenced for Professor Ahmadreza Djalali
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic convicted of espionage, as...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 13, 20172 min read
Turkish Professor Visiting His Former Student Semih Özakça Suspended
On December 8, 2017, Irfan Mukul, an assistant professor at the University of Sinop, was suspended from the university for visiting his...
Dolunay Bulut
Dec 10, 20172 min read
Stony Brook Professor Detained in Cameroon
According to the Associated Press, a Stony Brook University professor has been detained in Cameroon after the publication of an essay...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 10, 20172 min read
Turkish Professor on 269-Day Hunger Strike Released from Jail
A Turkish academic on hunger strike for nearly nine months to protest her dismissal after last year’s failed coup has been released from...
Dolunay Bulut
Dec 4, 20171 min read
Wife of Princeton Graduate Student Imprisoned in Iran Pleads for Help
American graduate student Xiyue Wang is “very desperate.” His wife, Qu Hua, told NBC News in a broadcast Tuesday that he attempted...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 30, 20172 min read
ESW Stands With Academics for Peace in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 25, 20173 min read
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
Nov 21, 20172 min read
Nuriye Gülmen is Now 37 Kg and at Point of No Return
Veli Saçılık, a friend of the Turkish professor Nuriye Gülmen who started a hunger strike in order to protest her dismissal under state...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 19, 20172 min read
Urgent—Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Sentenced to Death
A judge in Tehran has ordered the death penalty for Iranian disaster-medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, according to his wife, Vida...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 23, 20173 min read
EPA Keeps Scientists From Speaking About Report on Climate
The US Environmental Protection Agency has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at a conference on...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 23, 20172 min read
Another NYU Professor Comes Forward with Claims of Discrimination at NYUAD
In a letter addressed to President Andrew Hamilton and members of the NYU Abu Dhabi administration, 10 NYU professors called for greater...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 12, 20174 min read
65-Year-Old Venezuelan Economist, Professor Santiago Guevara has lost 60 Pounds in Prison
It has been over six months since Santiago Guevara, a 65-year-old economist and professor who has taught at the University of Carabobo...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 2, 20172 min read
Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Professor Ahmadreza Djalali to Go on Trial for Espionage
Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian disaster-medicine researcher who was sent to prison in April 2016, is due to go to trial on September 27 on...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 25, 20172 min read
"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 18, 20173 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Statement on the Decision to End DACA
On September 5, 2017, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is being...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 6, 20172 min read
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
Sep 3, 20174 min read
Sudan President Pardons Professor Mudawi Ibrahim Adam
On August 29, 2017, Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir granted a pardon to Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, an engineering professor at the University...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 2, 20172 min read
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