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US Citizen and NASA Scientist Detained in Turkey in the Aftermath of Failed Coup
Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old NASA physicist of Turkish descent, was arrested on August 6 and formally accused of involvement with the...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 16, 20162 min read
China Sentences Lawyer to 7 Years in Jail for Subversion
A Chinese court sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng to seven years in prison. Zhou’s Beijing-based law firm, Fengrui, has defended some of...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 15, 20161 min read
The Purge Continues in Turkey—20 Professors and Lecturers Suspended from Anadolu University
On August 8, twenty professors who previously signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” were suspended from...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 9, 20162 min read
Thai Activist Indicted Over Distributing Leaflets
On August 6, 2016, Thai police arrested Jatupat Boonphatthararaksa, 25, a prominent activist from the New Democracy Movement (NDM), as he...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 8, 20162 min read
Turkish Professor Candan Badem Arrested for Having Book Written by Fetullah Gülen
Candan Badem of the Department of History at Tunceli University has been taken into the custody aftern being suspended from his position...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 3, 20162 min read
Petition—The War on Academics in Turkey
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned over recent reports from Turkey regarding the plight of the academic community. Since...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 2, 20163 min read
1,577 Turkish University Deans Told to Leave Following Failed Coup d'Etat
Anadolu news agency reported that Turkey's Board of Higher Education has requested the resignations of 1,577 university deans at state...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 19, 20161 min read
University of Toronto Student Survives Terrorist Attack in Bangladesh, Placed in Custody
Tahmid Hasib Khan, a 22-year-old University of Toronto student and permanent resident of Canada, has been in custody in Dhaka ever since...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 13, 20161 min read
Killing of Student Evokes Protest in North Darfur, Sudan
People in Birkat Seira in North Darfur demonstrated against the murder of a university student by a militiaman on Tuesday. Demonstrators...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 13, 20161 min read
Maati Monjib—the Cost of Free Speech in Morocco
Hearings resume this week in the case of seven Moroccan journalists accused of violating national security. The defendants allegedly...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 29, 20162 min read
"A Bittersweet Happiness" in Turkey—Professor Chris Stephenson Acquitted
Chris Stephenson, who was detained and sued on the charge of “terrorist organization propaganda” for having a Newroz notice of the...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 24, 20161 min read
“Crusade Against Academics” Continues in Turkey
On Monday a Turkish court ordered the detention of Erol Onderoglu from Reporters Without Borders; journalist Ahmet Nesin; and Professor...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 22, 20161 min read
Turkish University Professor Fired for Insulting President Erdoğan During Lecture
Bilgi University confirmed that Professor Zeynep Sayın Balıkçıoğlu was fired after "insulting the Turkish president during a lecture"...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 22, 20162 min read
Calls for Action on Behalf of Academics in Turkey
A group of scholars in the Turkish city of Mersin who openly criticized Turkey’s military crackdown on ethnic Kurdish communities are now...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 20, 20164 min read
ESW Concerned Over Ongoing Detention of Homa Hoodfar in Iran
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is gravely concerned over the ongoing detention of Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor of...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 10, 20161 min read
Canadian-Iranian Professor Arrested in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards
Iranian authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian professor of social anthropology, the latest in a string of cases involving dual...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 8, 20162 min read
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