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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 20, 20211 min read
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
Jul 13, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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...
Ebby Abramson
May 20, 20212 min read
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...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Apr 11, 20214 min read
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...
Dolunay Bulut
Apr 6, 20212 min read
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 17, 20212 min read
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....
Ebby Abramson
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Iranian Professor Jailed After Attending Training Course in Czech Republic
On Friday, February 12, 2021, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a court in Tehran has sentenced Reza Eslami, a dual...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Over 130 Scholars Sign Petition that Calls for Ending Harassment of Teng Biao
Over 130 scholars signed a petition organized by Endangered Scholars Worldwide, which condemned the daily public harassment of the...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 16, 20212 min read
Students Take a Leading Role in Protests against the Coup in Myanmar
This article originally appeared on University World News by Naw Say Phaw Waa After Myanmar’s military seized power in the first week of...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 14, 20215 min read
British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran
A British-Iranian anthropologist who was sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran for “cooperating with a hostile state...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Turkish Government Prosecutes Four Bogazici Students for Inciting Enmity
Photo credit: Bianet Since the illegitimate appointment of Professor Melih Bulu on January 2, 2021, as the president of Bogazici...
Dolunay Bulut
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop
Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and condemns in no uncertain terms the daily public harassment of the courageous and...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 19, 20212 min read
The AKP Government Appointed Party Loyalist as the New President of Bogazici University
Photo Credit: Bianet Amid the escalating economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the AKP government in Turkey tightens its...
Dolunay Bulut
Jan 9, 20211 min read
Thousands of Protesters March in Belarus, More than Three Hundred Detained
Opposition protesters remain defiant in Belarus despite widespread arrests and police brutality. On Sunday, December 6, 2020, thousands...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Iran Temporarily Halts Execution of Swedish-Iranian Academic Ahmadreza Djalali
On December 2, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) learned that Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish specialist in emergency...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 2, 20202 min read
Kylie Moore-Gilbert Arrives in Australia after two Years of Detention in Iran
Australian university lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert is finally on home soil following a two-year detention ordeal in Iran. On Wednesday,...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 29, 20202 min read
Bolsonaro’s War against Academic Freedom
In May 2019, thousands of scientists, educators, and students in more than 200 cities around Brazil swamped the streets to protest cuts...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 29, 20203 min read
Extremely Urgent: Iran Must Stop Imminent Execution of Swedish-Iranian Academic Ahmadreza Djalali
On November 24, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) learned that Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish specialist in emergency...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 25, 20204 min read
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