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Turkish Professor Mehmet Altan was Charged With "Attempting to Remove the Government"
Mehmet Altan, a prominent professor who was detained along with his brother Ahmet Altan, was remanded in custody after a hearing on his...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 24, 20162 min read


Iranian Prisoner of Conscience Hossein Rafiee Released
Elderly prisoner of conscience and retired university professor Mohammad Hossein Rafiee has been released from Evin Prison. Rafiee was...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 21, 20161 min read


Bahareh Hedayat—Free At Last
Iranian student activist and women human rights defender Bahareh Hedayat has been released from prison after serving nearly seven years....
Ebby Abramson
Sep 7, 20161 min read


ESW Stands with "Academics For Peace" in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 6, 20162 min read


Jailed Iranian Nuclear Scientist Tweets About His Freedom
The day after his conditional release from Evin Prison in northwestern Tehran, Twitter became the platform of choice to communicate...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 5, 20161 min read


Homa Hoodfar, Montreal Professor Jailed in Iran, "Can Hardly Walk or Talk"
Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor who was arrested by Iranian authorities on June 6, has been hospitalized in Iran, according to...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 31, 20162 min read


Omid Kokabee Released on Parole
Imprisoned Iranian laser scientist Omid Kokabee, who was on brief medical leave to recuperate from kidney-cancer surgery, has been...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 29, 20161 min read


ESW Remembers Law Professor Killed in Terrorist Attack Against American University of Afghanistan
Endangered Scholars Worldwide remembers Naqib Khpulwak, a law professor who was killed in an attack on the American University of...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 27, 20161 min read


Turkey Issues Arrest Warrants for 85 University Academics Nationwide
Arrest warrants have been issued for 44 academics from Istanbul University, 29 from Selcuk University, and 12 from Abant İzzet Baysal...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 19, 20162 min read


Qafqaz University of Baku Fires Turkish Instructors Over Alleged Gulen Links
On August 16 a university in Azerbaijan fired 50 Turkish educators for alleged links to cleric Fethullah Gulen. Elmar Qasymov, acting...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 17, 20161 min read


5,342 Turkish Academics and Administrators Suspended
Turkey's Council of Higher Education (YÖK) announced on Friday that a number of academics and administrative staff members at public and...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 17, 20162 min read


US Citizen and NASA Scientist Detained in Turkey in the Aftermath of Failed Coup
Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old NASA physicist of Turkish descent, was arrested on August 6 and formally accused of involvement with the...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 16, 20162 min read


China Sentences Lawyer to 7 Years in Jail for Subversion
A Chinese court sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng to seven years in prison. Zhou’s Beijing-based law firm, Fengrui, has defended some of...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 15, 20161 min read


The Purge Continues in Turkey—20 Professors and Lecturers Suspended from Anadolu University
On August 8, twenty professors who previously signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” were suspended from...

Dolunay Bulut
Aug 9, 20162 min read


Thai Activist Indicted Over Distributing Leaflets
On August 6, 2016, Thai police arrested Jatupat Boonphatthararaksa, 25, a prominent activist from the New Democracy Movement (NDM), as he...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 8, 20162 min read


Turkish Professor Candan Badem Arrested for Having Book Written by Fetullah Gülen
Candan Badem of the Department of History at Tunceli University has been taken into the custody aftern being suspended from his position...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 3, 20162 min read


1,577 Turkish University Deans Told to Leave Following Failed Coup d'Etat
Anadolu news agency reported that Turkey's Board of Higher Education has requested the resignations of 1,577 university deans at state...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 19, 20161 min read


University of Toronto Student Survives Terrorist Attack in Bangladesh, Placed in Custody
Tahmid Hasib Khan, a 22-year-old University of Toronto student and permanent resident of Canada, has been in custody in Dhaka ever since...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 13, 20161 min read


Killing of Student Evokes Protest in North Darfur, Sudan
People in Birkat Seira in North Darfur demonstrated against the murder of a university student by a militiaman on Tuesday. Demonstrators...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 13, 20161 min read


Maati Monjib—the Cost of Free Speech in Morocco
Hearings resume this week in the case of seven Moroccan journalists accused of violating national security. The defendants allegedly...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 29, 20162 min read
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