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Three Years of Turkey's Academics for Peace in Numbers
Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to be extremely concerned about the Turkish government’s systematic targeting of the country’s...
Dolunay Bulut
Jan 30, 20191 min read
ESW Stands With Umbrella Nine
On November 19, 2018, the “Umbrella Nine” were brought before judges to account for their actions during the 2014 student-led protest...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 24, 20195 min read
Ahmadreza Djalali Languishing in Iranian Prison—124 Nobel Laureates Call for His Release
It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran....
Ebby Abramson
Jan 13, 20192 min read
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...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 27, 20181 min read
CEU “Forced Out” of Hungary—a “Blow to Academic Freedom”
Budapest's Central European University (CEU), which has fought for 20 months to secure its continued presence in the Hungarian capital,...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 5, 20183 min read
Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities
As concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related regions of the...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 27, 20185 min read
Turkey Releases Two Academics With Travel Ban
On November 16, 2018 Turkish authorities arrested 13 people, including two academics from Bogazici and Bilgi universities and a group of...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 20, 20181 min read
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...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 6, 20182 min read
CEU "forced out" of Hungary—University Determined to Uphold Academic Freedom
On October 25, 2018 the Board of Trustees of Central European University (CEU) announced that it will move most of its teaching to Vienna...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 27, 20182 min read
Turkish Prosecutor Demands 7.5 Years for 32 Peace Academics
The trials of academics who have been charged with "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" after signing the Academics for Peace...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 25, 20182 min read
Turkey Reduced NASA Scientist's Sentence
In February 2018 Serkan Golge, a NASA researcher who holds dual Turkish-American citizenship, was sentenced to seven years and six months...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 20, 20181 min read
Another Baha’i Student Barred from Advancing Studies
In the latest wave of oppression against Baha’i students in Iran, Anahita Horr, an undergraduate at the School of Architecture at Rasam...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 9, 20183 min read
Five Uyghur Professors from Xinjiang University Held in Political "Re-education Camps"
At least five ethnic Uyghur professors from Xinjiang University in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being held in...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 4, 20182 min read
Peace Academics on Trial Again
On January 10, 2016, 1,128 academics published a declaration titled “We will not be party to this crime” on behalf of the Academics for...
Dolunay Bulut
Sep 20, 20183 min read
Hanifi Baris to be Released from Turkish Prison
Hanifi Baris, an Aberdeen University graduate who has been in Turkish jail since July 4, 2018, was released on probation by the court on...
Dolunay Bulut
Sep 18, 20181 min read
Letter of Appeal on Behalf of XiYue Wang Imprisoned Graduate Student in Iran
On September 12, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the US Department of...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 12, 20181 min read
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