Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that on March 21, 2020 Iran freed Roland Marchal after a prisoner swap with France. Marchal was arr...

We welcome the news that on December 6, 2019, XiYue Wang, a 37-year-old US citizen of Chinese descent who has been imprisoned in Iran sin...

Iranian authorities have released British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady who had been arrested on August 11 on “unspecified charges...

The Taliban released an American and an Australian hostage on Tuesday after the Afghan government freed three imprisoned Taliban officers...

Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege in Belgium, who was detained in August 2013 ...

On May 11, 2019, Tuna Altınel, associate professor at the Lyon 1 University, was arrested in Balikesir, Turkey, due to his participation ...

On July 22, 2019, Professor Füsun Üstel from Galatasaray University has been released from Eskisehir Women’s Prison, where she was servin...

On May 29, 2019, Turkey released Serkan Gölge, a US citizen of Turkish descent and a physicist with the United States National Aeronautic...

Maryam Shafipour, 29, was released from a women's wing of Evin Prison in Tehran on Thursday July 16, 2015. She was arrested in July after...

In Brief On December 29, 2016, the renowned writer and linguist Necmiye Alpay was released from Bakirkoy prison in Istanbul, 120 days aft...

In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and ...

In Brief Homa Hoodfar, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, was detained in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison on June 6, ...

In Brief Bahareh Hedayat, a student activist and women’s rights defender, was arrested on December 31, 2009. After nearly seven years in ...

In Brief Status: Released In October 2019, Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege...