Hossein Rafiee, a retired university professor, has had his six-year prison sentence, which was imposed for his peaceful political...

An appeals court in Iran has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of student activist Arash Sadeghi for “collusion against national...

Authorities in Northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region have given permission for relatives of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to...

According to Hurriyet Daily News, Reşat Barış Ünlü, a professor of political science at Ankara University, faces seven years in prison...

Associate Professor Battal Odabaşı from İstanbul Aydın University has been fired for signing a declaration that calls for the restoration...

The Turkish government has taken drastic steps toward restricting academic freedoms, arresting 27 Turkish academics and launching...

US Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday that Turkey, once vaunted by Washington as a model of Islamic democracy, was setting a poor...

Chemistry professor Syed Hamid Hussain, 34, has been named as one of the victims of the violent attack on Bacha Khan University in...

After more than 18 months, Jason Rezaian was released from an Iranian prison as the result of a deal struck between the US and Iran. “I...

Turkish President Erdogan described Noam Chomsky, a scholar who, along with 1,128 Turkish and foreign academics from 89 universities,...

Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, has been released along with three other...

Turkish authorities detained 14 scholars on Friday, accusing them of spreading “terrorism propaganda” and of insulting the state after...

Phyoe Phyoe Aung, a student protestor who is being hospitalized at Yangon General Hospital, was charged on Monday for additional crimes...

The trial of Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang drew condemnation from human rights groups and foreign diplomats on Monday. Pu joins a long list...

On December 8, 2008, Liu was arrested, after which he was sentenced to eleven years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power”...

One woman died and around 30 people were injured when an attack drill at Strathmore University in Nairobi caused panic among students and...

A 21-year-old college student has been arrested for threatening to “execute approximately 16 white male students and or staff” at the...

Nearly four months after his arrest, Naser bin Ghaith's family still have no idea where he was taken, why he was arrested, and what...

Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison on September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious, and...

More than two weeks of violence have sparked concerns of a full-scale uprising. The arson attack on Joseph's Tomb in Nablus came as...