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Turkey: Constitutional Court overturns terrorism charges against peace academics
On Friday, July 26, the general secretariat of Turkey’s Constitutional Court held a meeting to examine individual applications from 10...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 29, 20192 min read
Peace Academic Füsun Üstel Released from Prison
On July 22, 2019, Professor Füsun Üstel from Galatasaray University has been released from Eskisehir Women’s Prison, where she was...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 24, 20192 min read
Fariba Adelkhah: French-Iranian Academic ‘Arrested in Iran’
On July 16, 2019, Iran's Judiciary has confirmed the arrest of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has become the latest dual...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 17, 20193 min read
Hungarian Government Takes Control of Research Institutes
On July 2, 2019, Hungarian lawmakers passed a controversial legislation “described” as academic reform, but widely perceived as the...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 14, 20194 min read
Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
By Jerome A. Cohen* Here is an important, thoughtful and balanced essay by Professors Marina Svensson and Eva Pils, Academic Freedom:...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Jun 20, 20191 min read
Resolution by Leaders of Academy Research Network
A resolution by the Board of Directors of the Academy Research Centres regarding the necessary law amendment to transform the structure...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 8, 20192 min read
Breaking News—Turkey Frees NASA Scientist from Prison after Three Years
On May 29, 2019, Turkey released Serkan Gölge, a US citizen of Turkish descent and a physicist with the United States National...
Dolunay Bulut
May 29, 20192 min read
Bolsonaro’s New Enemy: Autonomy of Brazil’s Universities
On May 15, 2019, thousands of scientists, educators, and students in more than 200 cities around Brazil swamped the streets to protest...
Ebby Abramson
May 27, 20193 min read
Iranian Student Prisoner Parisa Rafiee Reveals Female Political Prisoners’ Suffering
On May 9, 2019, Iranian student activist Parisa Rafiee, who is serving a seven-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, published...
Ebby Abramson
May 17, 20195 min read
Second incarceration in a week: Peace academic Tuna Altinel arrested in Balikesir
Photo by Bianet Following the first court-approved imprisonment of a Peace signatory, Professor Fusun Ustel, on May 8, 2019, the...
Dolunay Bulut
May 16, 20192 min read
Turkish Foreign Affairs protests Kurdish language classes in Japan
On April 1, 2019, the University of Tokyo started a Kurdish language program led by Vakkak Colak and is currently teaching Kurdish to 40...
Dolunay Bulut
May 13, 20192 min read
Appalling violence against students holding Pride March
On April 19, 2019, the Regional Administrative Court in Ankara removed the indefinite ban on any LGBTQIA events in the city, which was...
Dolunay Bulut
May 13, 20191 min read
Ilham Tohti
In Brief Ilham Tohti, a public Uyghur intellectual and professor of economics at the Central Minorities University, was detained at the...
Ebby Abramson
May 3, 20192 min read
Egypt: Attacks on Academic Freedom Require Global Response
On April 10, 2019, Scholars at Risk (SAR) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Egypt (AFTE) have filed a joint...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20192 min read
Student Activist Maryam Shafipour Released from Prison
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...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee
In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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