Academics Call for Support of Afghan Alumni
Japanese academics have launched a support network to pressure their government to expand provisional measures for their Afghan...
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Bogazici University Academics
- Nov 3, 2021
- 4 min
Boğaziçi University Call for Solidarity: Beginning the 2021 Academic Year Under Assault
As the government assault on Boğaziçi University continues to escalate, Boğaziçi faculty penned a letter printed below summarizing the...
Dolunay Bulut
- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
Whither Hungary: Academic Freedom and Authoritarianism
Victor Orbán-led Hungarian government has continued to increase pressure on opposition parties, civil society, and the media. Freedom of...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
Boğaziçi Campus Raided by Riot Police
The tension between the student protesters and the appointed rector of Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University continues to escalate. On...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
Rwandan-Ugandan Academic Kidnapped from Campus by Ugandan Security Forces
Endangered Scholars Worldwide recently learned that Lawrence Muganga, Vice Chancellor of the private Victoria University in Uganda, was...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 16, 2021
- 2 min
Turkish Constitutional Court Ruled in Favor of Dismissed Peace Academic
On September 11, 2021, Turkey’s Constitutional Court, the highest court of the country, came to a decision regarding the individual...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 16, 2021
- 2 min
Turkish Court Approves Release under Travel Ban for Four Bogazici Protesters
As protests against the illegitimate rector appointment continue in Istanbul, the tension between the Turkish government and Bogazici...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 11, 2021
- 1 min
Resistance of Bogazici Students and Faculty Continues
The second round of 97 Bogazici student trials on charges of resistance to law enforcement and bringing guns to a peaceful protest was...
Ebby Abramson
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Petition in Solidarity with Academics and Activists in Belarus
Today marks one-year anniversary of the crackdown on Belarussian students for their nonviolent protests across the country over the...
Ebby Abramson
- Sep 29, 2021
- 2 min
Imprisoned Bahraini Scholar goes on Hunger Strike
Endangered Scholars Worldwide recently learned that on July 8, 2021, 59-year-old Abduljalil Al-Singace, former head of the Department of...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
- Aug 31, 2021
- 5 min
‘I Don’t Want to Die.’ Afghan Researchers Fear for their safety—and the future of science
BY: RICHARD STONE* Twice the Taliban tried to kill Khyber Mashal**. Its first attempt was in 2009, when the Afghan scientist was working...
Ebby Abramson
- Aug 10, 2021
- 2 min
Iran Must Release Academic and Political Prisoners Who Contracted Covid-19 on Medical Grounds
Iran, one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has temporarily released around 85,000 prisoners due to the fear of...
Ebby Abramson
- Jul 20, 2021
- 1 min
Alia Mosallam, Egyptian Academic Detained upon Arrival at Cairo Airport
On Sunday July 11, 2021 Egyptian security forces arrested Alia Mosallam, a historian and postdoctoral fellow at Germany’s Alexander van...
Ebby Abramson
- Jul 13, 2021
- 1 min
Petition in Solidarity with Academics and Activists in Belarus
Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and condemns the ongoing detention of Belarusian students in no uncertain terms for...
Ebby Abramson
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Thailand: Two Thai Pro-democracy Students Released on Bail
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that two leaders of a Thai student-led prodemocracy movement who were...
Ebby Abramson
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
Myanmar Junta ‘Suspends Thousands of Academics’
Over 13,000 academics and university staff members at various universities in Myanmar have been suspended from their jobs in recent weeks...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
- Apr 11, 2021
- 4 min
Brazilian Scientists Face Rising Attacks from Bolsonaro’s Regime
By Herton Escobar | Last week, scientists at the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), Brazil’s lead agency for...
Dolunay Bulut
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
Petition in Solidarity with Academics and Activists in France
Photo credit: Geoffroy van der Hasselt, AFP Following the murder of a middle school history teacher in Paris by a radical Islamist in...
Ebby Abramson
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Gunmen Ambush University Bus in Afghanistan Killing at Least Two, Injuring Six
On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, Gunmen ambushed a bus transporting university students, staff, and professors in Baghlan province, killing...
Ebby Abramson
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Slovenian Universities to Protest Politicizing University Reforms
Several [Slovenian] universities plan to protest against the planned reform on legislation by the Slovenian Ministry of Education....
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