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Saudi Student and Blogger Raif Badawi Given More Lashes in Prison
The Raif Badawi Foundation said in a statement that it has received confirmation that Badawi is to be given more lashes in prison. This...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 14, 20162 min read
Qatar University Cancels "Women in Islam" Talk After Controversy and Death Threats
Qatar University postponed a lecture that was supposed to be held on Thursday after its keynote speaker received death threats for her...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 14, 20162 min read
Ethiopia Arrests University Lecturer Seyoum Teshome
Seyoum Teshome, an outspoken university lecturer who has been quoted frequently by foreign media outlets about the antigovernment...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 27, 20161 min read
Quetta Attack—Militants Kill at Least 61 People and Injure at Least 120
Militants raided Balochistan Police College in Quetta on October 24, 2016, killing at least 61 people and injuring at least 120....
Ebby Abramson
Oct 25, 20161 min read
Joint Letter of Appeal on Behalf of Serkan Golge, Imprisoned NASA Physicist
On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 24, 20161 min read
Jewher Ilham—"My Father Shouldn't Be in Jail At All"
The daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti has spoken out in support of his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 18, 20162 min read
Canadian-Iranian Professor Homa Hoodfar—I survived Imprisonment by Studying My Captors
Long after the interrogations at Iran’s notorious Evin prison had ceased for the day, Homa Hoodfar’s work would begin. While her...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 10, 20164 min read
Six Years On, Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate's Family Faces Severe Hardship & Social Isolation
Six years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo seems unlikely to be given a chance to "seek medical...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 9, 20162 min read
The Purge Continues—Turkey Detains Another 23 Academics Over Use of "Suspected" Mobile App
23 Turkish academics who were allegedly using ByLock, a text messaging application, were detained last week as part of a witch-hunt...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 8, 20162 min read
Iranian-Canadian Professor Homa Hoodfar Released From Prison
Concordia University professor Homa Hoodfar, who has been detained in Tehran's Evin prison since June 6, 2016 has been released, Canadian...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 26, 20161 min read
Turkish Professor Mehmet Altan was Charged With "Attempting to Remove the Government"
Mehmet Altan, a prominent professor who was detained along with his brother Ahmet Altan, was remanded in custody after a hearing on his...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 24, 20162 min read
Iranian Prisoner of Conscience Hossein Rafiee Released
Elderly prisoner of conscience and retired university professor Mohammad Hossein Rafiee has been released from Evin Prison. Rafiee was...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 21, 20161 min read
Bahareh Hedayat—Free At Last
Iranian student activist and women human rights defender Bahareh Hedayat has been released from prison after serving nearly seven years....
Ebby Abramson
Sep 7, 20161 min read
ESW Stands with "Academics For Peace" in Turkey—Urgent Call for Solidarity
Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 6, 20162 min read
Jailed Iranian Nuclear Scientist Tweets About His Freedom
The day after his conditional release from Evin Prison in northwestern Tehran, Twitter became the platform of choice to communicate...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 5, 20161 min read
Homa Hoodfar, Montreal Professor Jailed in Iran, "Can Hardly Walk or Talk"
Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor who was arrested by Iranian authorities on June 6, has been hospitalized in Iran, according to...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 31, 20162 min read
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