Taliban militants publicly hanged a university student at Kabul Polytechnic University after accusing him of killing a senior...

Faculty, students, and staff across the country are calling for their universities to become sanctuary campuses following the 2016...

Istanbul Police detained at least 103 academics at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul on Friday and Saturday as part of the ongoing...

On November 16, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of protest to US President-elect Donald Trump's office regarding...

Those of us at The New School received news on Saturday that dorm room doors had been vandalized with swastikas. The president has acted...

Under a legislative decree published on Saturday, Turkish authorities fired more than 10,000 public servants for alleged ties to the...

Delhi University professor and rights activist Nandini Sundar and ten others have been summoned for murder charges in the insurgency-hit...

On November 12, 2016, Mehmed Özkan was directly appointed rector to Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University by President Recep Tayyip...

The Raif Badawi Foundation said in a statement that it has received confirmation that Badawi is to be given more lashes in prison. This...

Qatar University postponed a lecture that was supposed to be held on Thursday after its keynote speaker received death threats for her...

Seyoum Teshome, an outspoken university lecturer who has been quoted frequently by foreign media outlets about the antigovernment...

Militants raided Balochistan Police College in Quetta on October 24, 2016, killing at least 61 people and injuring at least 120....

On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...

The daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti has spoken out in support of his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater...

Long after the interrogations at Iran’s notorious Evin prison had ceased for the day, Homa Hoodfar’s work would begin. While her...

Six years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo seems unlikely to be given a chance to "seek medical...

23 Turkish academics who were allegedly using ByLock, a text messaging application, were detained last week as part of a witch-hunt...

Concordia University professor Homa Hoodfar, who has been detained in Tehran's Evin prison since June 6, 2016 has been released, Canadian...

Mehmet Altan, a prominent professor who was detained along with his brother Ahmet Altan, was remanded in custody after a hearing on his...

Elderly prisoner of conscience and retired university professor Mohammad Hossein Rafiee has been released from Evin Prison. Rafiee was...