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Killed and Disappeared

Russian Authorities Abduct Ukrainian Professor in Melitopol

As Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the 1-year mark, Volodymyr Vorovka, a professor of marine biology at Melitopol...

Sectarian Mob Violence Killed Another Student in Nigeria

On May 12, 2022, in the Shehu Shagari College of Education, located in Nigeria’s northwesternmost state of Sokoto, a female student,...

Controversial Amnesty Decision by Myanmar’s Junta

Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that on October 18, 2021, the Myanmar military, which has been ruling the country since the coup...

Gunmen Ambush University Bus in Afghanistan Killing at Least Two, Injuring Six

On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, Gunmen ambushed a bus transporting university students, staff, and professors in Baghlan province, killing...

Gunmen Kill more than a Dozen Students in Attack on Afghanistan Kabul University

Islamic State-affiliated gunmen stormed Afghanistan’s largest university on Monday, killing more than a dozen students and forcing...

Student Killing Sends a Chill Through Bangladesh Campus

On Monday, October 7, 2019, Abrar Fahad, a second-year-student of electrical and electronic engineering at Dhaka's Bangladesh University...

Syed Hamid Hussain

In Brief Syed Hamid Hussein, a 34-year-old chemistry professor at Bacha Khan University in northwest Pakistan, died on January 20, 2016...

Giulio Regeni

In Brief Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student at Cambridge who was studying abroad in Egypt, disappeared on his way to a party in...

Naqib Khpulwak

In Brief Naqib Khpulwak, an assistant law professor at the American University in Kabul, Afghanistan, was among the 16 students and...

Nazimuddin Samad

In Brief Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old secular activist and law student at Jagannath University, was killed in Dhaka, Bangladeshi...