#UrgentNews

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...

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...

Rally set for May 11 to Support Princeton University Graduate Student Imprisoned in Iran

Supporters of Xiyue Wang, the Princeton University graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran for almost two years, will hold a...

Turkey’s Jailed Students Need Our Attention

On March 19, 2018, a group of students from the Society for Islamic Research (BISAK) at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University opened a stand at...

PETITION TO IRAN TO OVERTURN PROFESSOR AHMADREZA DJALALI’S DEATH SENTENCE

We, the undersigned, are compelled to express our outrage at the arrest, conviction, and sentencing of Iranian professor Ahmadreza...

Nuriye Gülmen is Now 37 Kg and at Point of No Return

Veli Saçılık, a friend of the Turkish professor Nuriye Gülmen who started a hunger strike in order to protest her dismissal under state...

Urgent—Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Sentenced to Death

A judge in Tehran has ordered the death penalty for Iranian disaster-medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, according to his wife, Vida...

EPA Keeps Scientists From Speaking About Report on Climate

The US Environmental Protection Agency has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at a conference on...

65-Year-Old Venezuelan Economist, Professor Santiago Guevara has lost 60 Pounds in Prison

It has been over six months since Santiago Guevara, a 65-year-old economist and professor who has taught at the University of Carabobo...