Nazimuddin Samad, a law student and secular activist, was killed by three men armed with machetes in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. This...

Israeli forces stormed the campus of al-Quds University in the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis early on Tuesday morning, damaging...

Turkish authorities arrested three scholars who held a press conference on March 10 in connection with signing the petition “We will not...

Hossein Rafiee, a retired university professor, has had his six-year prison sentence, which was imposed for his peaceful political...

A student leader from a top university in India charged with sedition may be expelled from campus, reports say. Kanhaiya Kumar was...

Moroccan historian Maati Monjib and six others are now facing trial before the Tribunal of First Instance in the capital Rabat on charges...

An appeals court in Iran has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of student activist Arash Sadeghi for “collusion against national...

Authorities in Northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region have given permission for relatives of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to...

According to Hurriyet Daily News, Reşat Barış Ünlü, a professor of political science at Ankara University, faces seven years in prison...

In the latest example of the Turkish government's pressure on scholars, 1,200 academics from 89 universities who signed a statement that...

Associate Professor Battal Odabaşı from İstanbul Aydın University has been fired for signing a declaration that calls for the restoration...

The Turkish government has taken drastic steps toward restricting academic freedoms, arresting 27 Turkish academics and launching...

US Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday that Turkey, once vaunted by Washington as a model of Islamic democracy, was setting a poor...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide condemns the terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in the city of Charsadda, Pakistan, in which armed...

Chemistry professor Syed Hamid Hussain, 34, has been named as one of the victims of the violent attack on Bacha Khan University in...

After more than 18 months, Jason Rezaian was released from an Iranian prison as the result of a deal struck between the US and Iran. “I...