On September 16, 2019 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the The European...

Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, 23, who United States border officials turned away thirteen days ago, arrived on campus Monday in time...

On August 14, 2019, the wife of British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady confirmed that her husband had been arrested on August 11...

On May 11, 2019, Tuna Altınel, associate professor at the Lyon 1 University, was arrested in Balikesir, Turkey, due to his participation...

On Friday, July 26, the general secretariat of Turkey’s Constitutional Court held a meeting to examine individual applications from 10...

On July 22, 2019, Professor Füsun Üstel from Galatasaray University has been released from Eskisehir Women’s Prison, where she was...

On July 16, 2019, Iran's Judiciary has confirmed the arrest of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has become the latest dual...

On July 2, 2019, Hungarian lawmakers passed a controversial legislation “described” as academic reform, but widely perceived as the...

By Jerome A. Cohen* Here is an important, thoughtful and balanced essay by Professors Marina Svensson and Eva Pils, Academic Freedom:...

A resolution by the Board of Directors of the Academy Research Centres regarding the necessary law amendment to transform the structure...

On May 29, 2019, Turkey released Serkan Gölge, a US citizen of Turkish descent and a physicist with the United States National...

On May 15, 2019, thousands of scientists, educators, and students in more than 200 cities around Brazil swamped the streets to protest...

On May 9, 2019, Iranian student activist Parisa Rafiee, who is serving a seven-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, published...

Photo by Bianet Following the first court-approved imprisonment of a Peace signatory, Professor Fusun Ustel, on May 8, 2019, the...

On April 1, 2019, the University of Tokyo started a Kurdish language program led by Vakkak Colak and is currently teaching Kurdish to 40...

On April 19, 2019, the Regional Administrative Court in Ankara removed the indefinite ban on any LGBTQIA events in the city, which was...