On August 21, 2017, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, the director of the Regional Centre for Social...

Many professors who have expressed their views about race and politics this year have found themselves targets of both the left and...

On August 3, 2017, a court in northeastern Thailand began a closed-door trial of an activist law student arrested for sharing a BBC...

Ahmadreza Djalali, a professor who was arrested for suspected espionage in Iran, has been sentenced to death, his wife, Vida Mehran-Nia,...

It has been over a year since Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old United States citizen of Turkish descent and physicist with the United States...

An Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency...

Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university...

Friends of China's most prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo have accused the Chinese Government of violating human rights after the activist...

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

Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016,...

Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...

It has been over eight months since Ethiopian security forces arrested opposition leader Professor Merera Gudina upon his return to the...

Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver...

On June 10, 2017, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang signed a special order into effect that stripped French-Vietnamese mathematician...

Two Turkish academics are facing months or even years in prison after being arrested for launching a hunger strike in protest of being...

On May 22, 2017, Jatuphat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa, a law student and key member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM), was taken to the...

On May 11, 2017, Mudawi Ibrahim was charged with undermining the constitutional system and waging war against the State. Both charges...

North Korea arrests another professor from the US over charges of allegedly being hostile to the state. Professor Kim Hak Song was...

Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...

Malaysia’s police chief confirmed the arrest of a former vice chair of a Turkish university who Ankara accuses of links to the last...