Academic Freedom 8/10

Sep 6, 20192 min read

Palestinian Freshman Previously Barred Entry into US Arrives at Harvard

Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, 23, who United States border officials turned away thirteen days ago, arrived on campus Monday in time...

Dolunay Bulut

Aug 1, 20191 min read

Turkey

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...

Turkey: Constitutional Court overturns terrorism charges against peace academics

Dolunay Bulut

Jul 29, 20192 min read

Turkey

Turkey: Constitutional Court overturns terrorism charges against peace academics

On Friday, July 26, the general secretariat of Turkey’s Constitutional Court held a meeting to examine individual applications from 10...

Peace Academic Füsun Üstel Released from Prison

Dolunay Bulut

Jul 24, 20192 min read

Released

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...

Fariba Adelkhah: French-Iranian Academic ‘Arrested in Iran’

Ebby Abramson

Jul 17, 20193 min read

Iran

Fariba Adelkhah: French-Iranian Academic ‘Arrested in Iran’

On July 16, 2019, Iran's Judiciary has confirmed the arrest of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has become the latest dual...

Hungarian Government Takes Control of Research Institutes

Ebby Abramson

Jul 14, 20194 min read

Hungary

Hungarian Government Takes Control of Research Institutes

On July 2, 2019, Hungarian lawmakers passed a controversial legislation “described” as academic reform, but widely perceived as the...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide

Jun 20, 20191 min read

Statement

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:...

Turkey Sentences Three Peace Academics to Prison

Dolunay Bulut

Jun 18, 20192 min read

Turkey

Turkey Sentences Three Peace Academics to Prison

The trials of Peace Academics, based on charges of terrorist propaganda, continue in the Istanbul Caglayan Courthouse. On June 13, 2019,...

Resolution by Leaders of Academy Research Network

Ebby Abramson

Jun 8, 20192 min read

Statement

Resolution by Leaders of Academy Research Network

A resolution by the Board of Directors of the Academy Research Centres regarding the necessary law amendment to transform the structure...

Bolsonaro’s New Enemy: Autonomy of Brazil’s Universities

Ebby Abramson

May 27, 20193 min read

Brazil

Bolsonaro’s New Enemy: Autonomy of Brazil’s Universities

On May 15, 2019, thousands of scientists, educators, and students in more than 200 cities around Brazil swamped the streets to protest...

Iranian Student Prisoner Parisa Rafiee Reveals Female Political Prisoners’ Suffering

Ebby Abramson

May 17, 20195 min read

Iran

Iranian Student Prisoner Parisa Rafiee Reveals Female Political Prisoners’ Suffering

On May 9, 2019, Iranian student activist Parisa Rafiee, who is serving a seven-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, published...

Second incarceration in a week: Peace academic Tuna Altinel arrested in Balikesir

Dolunay Bulut

May 16, 20192 min read

Turkey

Second incarceration in a week: Peace academic Tuna Altinel arrested in Balikesir

Photo by Bianet Following the first court-approved imprisonment of a Peace signatory, Professor Fusun Ustel, on May 8, 2019, the...

Turkish Foreign Affairs protests Kurdish language classes in Japan

Dolunay Bulut

May 13, 20192 min read

Turkey

Turkish Foreign Affairs protests Kurdish language classes in Japan

On April 1, 2019, the University of Tokyo started a Kurdish language program led by Vakkak Colak and is currently teaching Kurdish to 40...

Appalling violence against students holding Pride March

Dolunay Bulut

May 13, 20191 min read

Turkey

Appalling violence against students holding Pride March

On April 19, 2019, the Regional Administrative Court in Ankara removed the indefinite ban on any LGBTQIA events in the city, which was...

Egypt: Attacks on Academic Freedom Require Global Response

Ebby Abramson

Apr 25, 20192 min read

Egypt

Egypt: Attacks on Academic Freedom Require Global Response

On April 10, 2019, Scholars at Risk (SAR) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Egypt (AFTE) have filed a joint...

Rob Quinn on Executive Order on Campus Free Speech

Ebby Abramson

Apr 9, 20192 min read

Academic Freedom

Rob Quinn on Executive Order on Campus Free Speech

On March 21, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and...

Ill-treatment in Prison of Saudi Human Rights Defender Mohammed Al-Qahtani Continues

Ebby Abramson

Mar 26, 20192 min read

News

Ill-treatment in Prison of Saudi Human Rights Defender Mohammed Al-Qahtani Continues

On March 25, 2019, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Mohammed Al-Qahtani, a prominent Saudi economist’s, health is deteriorating...

Middle East Studies Association's Letter for Turkey's Peace Academics

Dolunay Bulut

Mar 22, 201910 min read

Turkey

Middle East Studies Association's Letter for Turkey's Peace Academics

H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey Dear...

Academic Behind Bars for Signing Peace Petition

Dolunay Bulut

Mar 4, 20193 min read

Turkey

Academic Behind Bars for Signing Peace Petition

Political scientist Füsun Üstel, a professor who retired from Galatasaray University in Istanbul, was among the first of 1,128 scholars...

Turkish Court Obliges Peace Academic to Visit a Martyr's Family

Dolunay Bulut

Feb 20, 20192 min read

Turkey

Turkish Court Obliges Peace Academic to Visit a Martyr's Family

The trials of Academics for Peace continues in Istanbul Heavy Penal Courts. As of February 20, 2019, 479 of 2,212 peace academics have...

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