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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
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Statement on Hungary’s Parliament Votes to Shut Down CEU
On April 4, 2017, the Hungarian parliament voted in favor of a government plan to regulate foreign-based universities to the degree that...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 4, 20173 min read
37 Students Detained at Istanbul University While Commemorating Kızıldere Massacre
37 students who were members of the Federation of Opinion Clubs (FKF) at Istanbul University have been taken into custody for attempting...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 30, 20171 min read
Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, Threatens to Shut Down Central European University | Petition
Central European University (CEU) expresses its opposition to proposed amendments to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education,...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 29, 20174 min read
Işık University Dismisses Two Academics for Peace Signatories
The government-led witch hunt targeting the peaceful opposition in Turkey has cost two more academics their jobs. On March 27, 2017, Isik...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 28, 20172 min read
China Bars Professor at Australian University from Leaving
An Australian academic researching human rights and barred from leaving China by state security agents on suspicion of endangering...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 27, 20171 min read
Venezuela Arrests University Professor Santiago Guevara over Opinion Piece
On March 3, 2017, Venezuelan authorities arrested Santiago Guevara of the University of Carabobo in apparent retaliation for opinion...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 7, 20171 min read
Two Turkish Academics Commit Suicide in Less than One Week
Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University, committed suicide on Friday evening in his home after he was fired from...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 2, 20172 min read
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