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Jason Rezaian Leaves Iran After Prisoner Swap
Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and two other Americans safely left Iran as part of a prisoner-swap. They landed in Germany...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 17, 20161 min read
Chomsky Slams Erdogan as Turkey Detains Academics
Turkish President Erdogan described Noam Chomsky, a scholar who, along with 1,128 Turkish and foreign academics from 89 universities,...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 16, 20161 min read
Iran Releases Washington Post Journalist Jason Rezaian
Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, has been released along with three other...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 16, 20163 min read
Turkey Detains Academics Who Signed Petition Defending Kurds
Turkish authorities detained 14 scholars on Friday, accusing them of spreading “terrorism propaganda” and of insulting the state after...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 15, 20163 min read
Phyoe Phyoe Aung Faces Additional Charges
Phyoe Phyoe Aung, a student protestor who is being hospitalized at Yangon General Hospital, was charged on Monday for additional crimes...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 12, 20161 min read
Nobel Laureate & Other Dissidents Remain in Chinese Prisons
The trial of Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang drew condemnation from human rights groups and foreign diplomats on Monday. Pu joins a long list...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 14, 20155 min read
Nobel Prize-Winning Chinese Poet Liu Xiaobo in Jail for Seven Years
On December 8, 2008, Liu was arrested, after which he was sentenced to eleven years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power”...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 14, 20151 min read
Open Letter in Support of Jason Rezaian
Noam Chomsky, Jerome A. Cohen, Juan Cole,Simon Critchley, and Wendy Doniger, et al.* To the Iranian authorities: We, the undersigned, are...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 3, 20152 min read
One Dead, 30 Injured in Strathmore University Terror Drill
One woman died and around 30 people were injured when an attack drill at Strathmore University in Nairobi caused panic among students and...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 1, 20151 min read
Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill "White Devils" at University of Chicago
A 21-year-old college student has been arrested for threatening to “execute approximately 16 white male students and or staff” at the...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 1, 20152 min read
UAE Economist Who Criticized Government Still in Incommunicado
Nearly four months after his arrest, Naser bin Ghaith's family still have no idea where he was taken, why he was arrested, and what...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 30, 20151 min read
Day 250 of #SingaceHungerStrike—Will You Write?
Today marks day 250 of Abdul Jalil Al-Singace's hunger strike in protest of the torture and mistreatment of prisoners at Bahrain's Jau...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 26, 20151 min read
University of Missouri Protests' Effect on National Higher Education
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned about the ongoing racial tension experienced by students, faculty, and staff of color...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 24, 20151 min read
Ilham Tohti Calls on Family to Appeal
Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison on September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious, and...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 9, 20152 min read
Fears Of Escalation in Israel-Palestinian Violence
More than two weeks of violence have sparked concerns of a full-scale uprising. The arson attack on Joseph's Tomb in Nablus came as...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 19, 20151 min read
Historian Maâti Monjib on Hunger Strike Since October 6
Maâti Monjib is a political historian at the University of Mohammed V-Rabat. Born in Morocco, he got his first PhD in France in North...
Ebby Abramson
Oct 17, 20152 min read
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