According to BBC Persian, the number of students detained has risen to 90 as protests continue in Iran. At least fourteen were arrested...

On December 20, 2017, four UN human rights experts called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an...

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic convicted of espionage, as...

In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace...

Veli Saçılık, a friend of the Turkish professor Nuriye Gülmen who started a hunger strike in order to protest her dismissal under state...

A judge in Tehran has ordered the death penalty for Iranian disaster-medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, according to his wife, Vida...

It has been over eight months since Ethiopian security forces arrested opposition leader Professor Merera Gudina upon his return to the...

Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...

Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, has been unlawfully detained for over two months. He is being held by...

Narges Bayani, a PhD student at NYU’s Institute for the Study Of The Ancient World, was among those detained at JFK. According to a...

As the sixth month of the emergency rule ends in Turkey, the government does not seem willing to end its witch-hunt, which has resulted...

On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...

Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned over recent reports from Turkey regarding the plight of the academic community. Since...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide is gravely concerned over the ongoing detention of Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor of...

In the latest example of the Turkish government's pressure on scholars, 1,200 academics from 89 universities who signed a statement that...

The Turkish government has taken drastic steps toward restricting academic freedoms, arresting 27 Turkish academics and launching...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide condemns the terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in the city of Charsadda, Pakistan, in which armed...

Noam Chomsky, Jerome A. Cohen, Juan Cole,Simon Critchley, and Wendy Doniger, et al.* To the Iranian authorities: We, the undersigned, are...

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...