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UAE Professor Nasser bin Ghaith Languishing in Prison
Updated June 25, 2020 Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) joins other human rights organizations in calling on the Emirati government,...
Ebby Abramson
May 14, 20202 min read
The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region Continues
Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of university professors within China’s Uyghur minority who have been imprisoned...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 2, 20192 min read
Ahmadreza Djalali Languishing in Iranian Prison—124 Nobel Laureates Call for His Release
It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran....
Ebby Abramson
Jan 13, 20192 min read
Poland Eliminates Anthropology as an Academic Discipline
On October 1, 2018, Jarosław Gowin, the Polish Minister of Science and Education, signed a new law known as the Constitution for Science...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 27, 20181 min read
CEU “Forced Out” of Hungary—a “Blow to Academic Freedom”
Budapest's Central European University (CEU), which has fought for 20 months to secure its continued presence in the Hungarian capital,...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 5, 20183 min read
Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities
As concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related regions of the...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 28, 20185 min read
Turkey Releases Two Academics With Travel Ban
On November 16, 2018 Turkish authorities arrested 13 people, including two academics from Bogazici and Bilgi universities and a group of...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 20, 20181 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Deplores Attack on Freedom of Expression in Brazil’s Universities
Reports claim that police officers and military have unleashed a full-scale operation in more than 20 public universities in Brazil as a...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 7, 20182 min read
CEU "forced out" of Hungary—University Determined to Uphold Academic Freedom
On October 25, 2018 the Board of Trustees of Central European University (CEU) announced that it will move most of its teaching to Vienna...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 27, 20182 min read
Turkish Prosecutor Demands 7.5 Years for 32 Peace Academics
The trials of academics who have been charged with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" after signing the Academics for Peace...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 25, 20182 min read
Turkey Reduced NASA Scientist's Sentence
In February 2018 Serkan Golge, a NASA researcher who holds dual Turkish-American citizenship, was sentenced to seven years and six months...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 20, 20181 min read
Another Baha’i Student Barred from Advancing Studies
In the latest wave of oppression against Baha’i students in Iran, Anahita Horr, an undergraduate at the School of Architecture at Rasam...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 9, 20183 min read
Five Uyghur Professors from Xinjiang University Held in Political "Re-education Camps"
At least five ethnic Uyghur professors from Xinjiang University in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being held in...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 4, 20182 min read
Peace Academics on Trial Again
On January 10, 2016, 1,128 academics published a declaration titled “We will not be party to this crime” on behalf of the Academics for...
Dolunay Bulut
Sep 20, 20183 min read
Hanifi Baris to be Released from Turkish Prison
Hanifi Baris, an Aberdeen University graduate who has been in Turkish jail since July 4, 2018, was released on probation by the court on...
Dolunay Bulut
Sep 18, 20181 min read
Letter of Appeal on Behalf of XiYue Wang Imprisoned Graduate Student in Iran
On September 12, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the US Department of...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 12, 20181 min read
University Program First Victim of Hungary Anti-Immigration Tax
An education program aimed at giving asylum seekers and refugees in Hungary a new start is the first casualty of the government’s most...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Tehran University Student Activist Sentenced to Seven Years
On September 5, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a University of Tehran photography student was sentenced to seven years...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Rights Violations Against Peace Academics in Turkey
Since the 2016 public declaration of the Peace letter that demanded an end to the Turkish state's violence against its Kurdish...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 30, 20181 min read
Indian Professor Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba Denied Medical Care
On August 29, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, professor and human rights defender, has been...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 30, 20181 min read
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