As the constitutional referendum that proposes a regime change approaches, the Turkish government continues to silence the democratic...

Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, has been unlawfully detained for over two months. He is being held by...

Ahmadreza Djalali, a professor who was arrested for suspected espionage in Iran, has been sentenced to death, his wife Vida Mehran-Nia...

Narges Bayani, a PhD student at NYU’s Institute for the Study Of The Ancient World, was among those detained at JFK. According to a...

A Long Island PhD student from Iran has been detained at JFK for the past 24 hours following President Trump’s executive order...

Samira Asgari spent months planning her move from Switzerland to the United States. The 30-year-old Iranian woman had secured a...

As the sixth month of the emergency rule ends in Turkey, the government does not seem willing to end its witch-hunt, which has resulted...

On January 23, 2017, around 30 people went to the house of Indian sociologist and human rights defender Bela Bhatia in Pandripani...

Campaigners are stepping up their fight for answers ahead of the first anniversary of the brutal murder of Cambridge student Giulio...

A professor at the University of Maiduguri and a child were killed while 17 others were wounded on Monday in a twin suicide bombing,...

On January 6, 2017, the Turkish government issued three new emergency decrees that dismissed 8,390 civil servants from their positions in...

On November 30, Ethiopian security forces arrested Merera Gudina on the basis of rendering support to terrorism and attempting to...

Taliban militants publicly hanged a university student at Kabul Polytechnic University after accusing him of killing a senior...

Faculty, students, and staff across the country are calling for their universities to become sanctuary campuses following the 2016...

Istanbul Police detained at least 103 academics at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul on Friday and Saturday as part of the ongoing...

On November 16, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of protest to US President-elect Donald Trump's office regarding...