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Student Protestors Killed by Police in Lesotho
On June 16, two unnamed students were killed by the Lesotho Mounted Police Service during a protest against the recent reduction of...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jun 28, 20222 min read


Turkish Police Attacked Students Marching for Pride Month
As the Pride Month has been acknowledged and celebrated worldwide, the Turkish government, among many other authoritarian regimes, has...
Dolunay Bulut
Jun 23, 20222 min read


Outrage Over Baloch Student Abductions and Karachi Police Force Against Protestors
Following the unexplained disappearance of two Pakistani university students, Doda Ellahi and Ghamshad Baloch, on June 7, a group that...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jun 22, 20223 min read


Future of Academic Freedom in Indonesia Under Threat
Photo credit: KIKA In May 2022, Scholars at Risk (SAR) and the Indonesian Caucus for Academic Freedom (KIKA) submitted a report on the...
Dolunay Bulut
Jun 7, 20223 min read


Russian Anti-War Academics Punished by Russian Government and Higher Education Administrators
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine heads into its fifth month, Russian academics who have protested Russia’s perpetration of war continue...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jun 7, 20223 min read


Resources for Ukrainian Students
Please see the list below for resources related to Ukrainian undergraduate and graduate students. Article 26 Backpack: UC Davis has...
Kennedy McCutchen
May 31, 20222 min read


A Travesty of Justice: Turkey Imprisons Prominent Civil Society Activists For Life
On April 25, 2022, toward the ninth anniversary of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, the final hearing of the Gezi trial took place. The...
Dolunay Bulut
May 27, 20223 min read


Sectarian Mob Violence Killed Another Student in Nigeria
On May 12, 2022, in the Shehu Shagari College of Education, located in Nigeria’s northwesternmost state of Sokoto, a female student,...
Dolunay Bulut
May 24, 20222 min read


Berlin Declaration Calls for International Solidarity with Threatened Scholars
On 3-5 May 2022, “G7+ Partners”[1], the leadership built by international education agencies, came together in Berlin with Academic...

Zeynep Guney
May 23, 20222 min read


URGENT: Halt the execution and immediately release Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali
On May 4, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Iran’s judiciary was taking steps to carry out its death sentence against...

Zeynep Guney
May 16, 20222 min read


Kashmir University Scholar Arrested for Ten Years Old Article
On April 17, 2022, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) of India, which recently created anti-terror branches in the country’s prominent...

Zeynep Guney
May 8, 20222 min read


Egypt: A call for an open investigation regarding a prominent researcher’s mysterious death
The mysterious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud in custody adds to the long list of blatant human rights violations targeting scholars,...

Zeynep Guney
May 1, 20222 min read


Russian University Ordered to Expel Anti-War Student Protesters
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, anti-war protests across Russia and the government crackdown to intimidate protesters also...
Kennedy McCutchen
Apr 27, 20222 min read


Judge to Violate Constitutional Rights in Trial of Bogazici University Students
As the Bogazici resistance marked one year in January 2022, there were protests both in the university and in front of the Silivri Prison...

Zeynep Guney
Apr 20, 20222 min read


Bogazici Continues to Resist Under Government Attacks
What has been happening at Boğaziçi University since early 2021 perfectly epitomizes the Erdogan government’s systematic attacks on...

Zeynep Guney
Apr 20, 20222 min read


Release Morad Tahbaz
Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to condemn the ongoing unwarranted detention of Iranian, dual national, and international...
Maryam Mushtaq
Apr 19, 20222 min read


Ways to help Ukrainian Students and Scholars
Endangered Scholars Worldwide emphatically condemns the ongoing war in Ukraine perpetrated by Russian military aggression. In order to...
Kennedy McCutchen
Apr 15, 20222 min read


Update on Ahmed Samir Santawy
According to Scholars at Risk, detained student Ahmed Samir Santawy’s retrial in Egypt was postponed for the third time to May 9, 2022....
Kennedy McCutchen
Mar 24, 20221 min read


‘Do not comment on Ukraine’, South African government cautions public science institutions
Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and is opposed to the attempt by the South African Department of Science to caution...
Maryam Mushtaq
Mar 24, 20221 min read


Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium
We, members of the American and international academic community, professors and students alike, emphatically condemn the Russian...
New University in Exile Consortium
Mar 17, 20222 min read
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