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Liu Xiaobo's Friends Renew Calls for Greater Democracy in China in Wake of Nobel Peace Prize
Friends of China's most prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo have accused the Chinese Government of violating human rights after the activist...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 16, 20172 min read
Chinese Authorities Deny Friends Access to Dying Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
Friends of China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, have issued a plea to Chinese authorities to be allowed...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 10, 20173 min read
Turkey Suspends 12 More Academics for Signing Peace Declaration
Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016,...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 7, 20172 min read
Turkish Scholars in the US Face a Difficult Decision on Speaking Out
Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 29, 20176 min read
ESW Statement of Behalf of Merera Gudina
It has been over eight months since Ethiopian security forces arrested opposition leader Professor Merera Gudina upon his return to the...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Released from Prison with Terminal Cancer
Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 26, 20171 min read
Vietnam Strips French-Vietnamese Professor of Citizenship
On June 10, 2017, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang signed a special order into effect that stripped French-Vietnamese mathematician...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 21, 20172 min read
Turkey Jails Academics on Hunger Strike Over Losing Their Jobs in Post-Coup Purge
Two Turkish academics are facing months or even years in prison after being arrested for launching a hunger strike in protest of being...
Dolunay Bulut
May 31, 20172 min read
Thai Student Activists Petition Against Contempt of Court Charges
On May 22, 2017, Jatuphat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa, a law student and key member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM), was taken to the...
Ebby Abramson
May 24, 20172 min read
Sudan Professor Faces Capital Charges—Order to Release on Bail Cancelled
On May 11, 2017, Mudawi Ibrahim was charged with undermining the constitutional system and waging war against the State. Both charges...
Ebby Abramson
May 17, 20173 min read
North Korea Arrests US Professor Charged with Being “Hostile to the State”
North Korea arrests another professor from the US over charges of allegedly being hostile to the state. Professor Kim Hak Song was...
Ebby Abramson
May 14, 20172 min read
ESW Stands with Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça
Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...
Dolunay Bulut
May 12, 20171 min read
Malaysia Detains Turkish Academic Linked by Ankara to Failed Turkey Coup
Malaysia’s police chief confirmed the arrest of a former vice chair of a Turkish university who Ankara accuses of links to the last...
Dolunay Bulut
May 6, 20171 min read
A “Blasphemy Killing” at a University Shocks Pakistan
On April 13 Mashal Khan, 23, a student at Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, a town in Northwest Pakistan, was pulled from his dorm...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 30, 20172 min read
TÜBİTAK—Scientific Body or Political Tool?
The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TÜBITAK) issued on March 24, 2017 a decree addressed to all Turkish peer...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 24, 20173 min read
Ugandan Academic Stella Nyanzi Charged with "Cyber Harassment"
Ugandan academic and government critic Stella Nyanzi has been charged with a "cyber harassment" offense after repeatedly posting...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 12, 20171 min read
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