top of page
Search
Academic Freedom Under Threat in Turkey
The international scholarly community must take meaningful steps to support the Academics for Peace, says Mehmet Ugur. On January 10 of...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 15, 20167 min read
BIHE Professor Faran Hesami Released After Four-Year Sentence
Faran Hesami, one of the imprisoned teachers from the Bahai Open University (BIHE), was released from Evin Prison in Tehran today at the...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 15, 20161 min read
Myanmar—Lin Htet Naing and Phyoe Phyoe Aung Released
According to Amnesty International, student leaders Phyoe Phyoe Aung and Lin Htet Naing (aka James and Aung Thant Zin) were released on...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 13, 20161 min read
Mahdi Abu Dheeb—Free At Last
Mahdi Abu Dheeb, the founder and leader of the Bahrain Teachers Association who was arrested and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 12, 20162 min read
Concerning News from Venezuela
On March 31, 2016, members of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) temporarily detained Professor Benjamin Scharifker, rector of the...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 12, 20161 min read
Bangladeshi Student Activist Killed
Nazimuddin Samad, a law student and secular activist, was killed by three men armed with machetes in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. This...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 7, 20161 min read
Israeli Forces Launch Another Raid on al-Quds University in East Jerusalem
Israeli forces stormed the campus of al-Quds University in the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis early on Tuesday morning, damaging...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 5, 20161 min read
Turkish Scholars Fired, Arrested, and Detained
Turkish authorities arrested three scholars who held a press conference on March 10 in connection with signing the petition “We will not...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 17, 20164 min read
Elderly Professor's Six-Year Jail Term Upheld
Hossein Rafiee, a retired university professor, has had his six-year prison sentence, which was imposed for his peaceful political...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 16, 20162 min read
Indian Student May Be Expelled
A student leader from a top university in India charged with sedition may be expelled from campus, reports say. Kanhaiya Kumar was...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 16, 20162 min read
Moroccan Historian Maati Monjib Faces Charges for "Receiving Foreign Funds"
Moroccan historian Maati Monjib and six others are now facing trial before the Tribunal of First Instance in the capital Rabat on charges...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 11, 20164 min read
Harsh Sentences for Iranian Student Activist Arash Sadeghi
An appeals court in Iran has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of student activist Arash Sadeghi for “collusion against national...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 8, 20163 min read
China to Allow Family Visit for Jailed Uyghur Scholar
Authorities in Northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region have given permission for relatives of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 22, 20161 min read
Turkish Academic Faces Jail for "Terror Propaganda" Over Exam Question on PKK Leader
According to Hurriyet Daily News, Reşat Barış Ünlü, a professor of political science at Ankara University, faces seven years in prison...
Ebby Abramson
Feb 2, 20162 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Supports Academics Under Attack in Turkey
In the latest example of the Turkish government's pressure on scholars, 1,200 academics from 89 universities who signed a statement that...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 29, 20161 min read
Professor Battal Odabası Fired for Signing Peace Petition
Associate Professor Battal Odabaşı from İstanbul Aydın University has been fired for signing a declaration that calls for the restoration...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 28, 20161 min read
bottom of page