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The Disappearance of Uyghur Intellectuals and Cultural Elites

Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of intellectuals, cultural elites, and university professors from China's Uyghur...

Hong Kong Universities Fire Professors Who Led Protests

—We Must Take a Stand or Risk Becoming Complicit with Chinese Government Interference A leading Hong Kong university has fired its law...

Hong Kong Universities Are Being Strangled; We Must Take a Stand

Hong Kong’s universities, long a beacon of academic freedom, are under threat and risk losing their autonomy. On November 18, 2019,...

Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

By Jerome A. Cohen* Here is an important, thoughtful and balanced essay by Professors Marina Svensson and Eva Pils, Academic Freedom:...

The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region Continues

Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of university professors within China’s Uyghur minority who have been imprisoned...

Five Uyghur Professors from Xinjiang University Held in Political "Re-education Camps"

At least five ethnic Uyghur professors from Xinjiang University in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being held in...

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...