Iran temporarily released Fariba Adelkhah Following Nuclear Deal Negotiations
Colleagues of Adelkhah hold placards depicting her as they gather in Paris on January 13, 2022. Photo credit || Thomas Coex, AFP On...
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Kennedy McCutchen
- Aug 11
- 2 min
Student Ahmed Samir Santawy Pardoned Following Months of Detainment
In a victory for academic freedom, Ahmed Samir Santawy, a graduate student who was recently sentenced to three years in prison by an...
Dolunay Bulut
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
Rwandan-Ugandan Academic Kidnapped from Campus by Ugandan Security Forces
Endangered Scholars Worldwide recently learned that Lawrence Muganga, Vice Chancellor of the private Victoria University in Uganda, was...
Dolunay Bulut
- Oct 16, 2021
- 2 min
Turkish Court Approves Release under Travel Ban for Four Bogazici Protesters
As protests against the illegitimate rector appointment continue in Istanbul, the tension between the Turkish government and Bogazici...
Ebby Abramson
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
Kylie Moore-Gilbert Arrives in Australia after two Years of Detention in Iran
Australian university lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert is finally on home soil following a two-year detention ordeal in Iran. On Wednesday,...
Dolunay Bulut
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
NASA Scientist Returned to the US After Four Years of Imprisonment
Serkan Golge, a 40-year old NASA scientist who was arrested in Turkey shortly after the failed coup attempt in July 2016, safely returned...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Iran Releases Academic Roland Marchal in Prisoner Swap—Hopes for Fariba Adelkhah’s Release
Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that on March 21, 2020 Iran freed Roland Marchal after a prisoner swap with France. Marchal was...
Ebby Abramson
- Dec 10, 2019
- 2 min
Xiyue Wang Released from Iranian Jail in Prisoner Swap
We welcome the news that on December 6, 2019, XiYue Wang, a 37-year-old US citizen of Chinese descent who has been imprisoned in Iran...
Ebby Abramson
- Nov 21, 2019
- 1 min
Kameel Ahmady—British-Iranian Anthropologist Arrested in Iran
Iranian authorities have released British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady who had been arrested on August 11 on “unspecified charges...
Ebby Abramson
- Nov 19, 2019
- 1 min
Western Professors Freed in Prisoner Swap with Taliban
The Taliban released an American and an Australian hostage on Tuesday after the Afghan government freed three imprisoned Taliban...
Ebby Abramson
- Oct 14, 2019
- 2 min
Political Prisoner Released After Six Years
Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege in Belgium, who was detained in August 2013...
Dolunay Bulut
- Aug 1, 2019
- 1 min
Peace Academic Tuna Altinel Released
On May 11, 2019, Tuna Altınel, associate professor at the Lyon 1 University, was arrested in Balikesir, Turkey, due to his participation...
Dolunay Bulut
- Jul 24, 2019
- 2 min
Peace Academic Füsun Üstel Released from Prison
On July 22, 2019, Professor Füsun Üstel from Galatasaray University has been released from Eskisehir Women’s Prison, where she was...
Dolunay Bulut
- May 29, 2019
- 2 min
Breaking News—Turkey Frees NASA Scientist from Prison after Three Years
On May 29, 2019, Turkey released Serkan Gölge, a US citizen of Turkish descent and a physicist with the United States National...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Student Activist Maryam Shafipour Released from Prison
Maryam Shafipour, 29, was released from a women's wing of Evin Prison in Tehran on Thursday July 16, 2015. She was arrested in July after...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee
In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Homa Hoodfar
In Brief Homa Hoodfar, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, was detained in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison on June 6,...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Bahareh Hedayat
In Brief Bahareh Hedayat, a student activist and women’s rights defender, was arrested on December 31, 2009. After nearly seven years in...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Hamid Babaei
In Brief Status: Released In October 2019, Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege...