President Sisi Pardons Patrick Zaki Day After Sentencing
Photo Credits: AP News Egyptian President Fattah El-Sisi has pardoned Patrick Zaki, a student and human rights researcher, a day after he...
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Maryam Mushtaq
Jul 6, 20231 min read
Egyptian Authorities Place CEU Student Ahmed Samir Santawy on Travel Ban
Photo credits: CEU On June 17th, 2023, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that despite his pardon and release by the President of...
Maryam Mushtaq
Jun 14, 20232 min read
Detained Egyptian Legal Scholar at Risk of Death
Photo credits: Human Rights Watch On May 5th, 2023, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Salah Soltan, an Egyptian legal scholar...
Kennedy McCutchen
Aug 11, 20222 min read
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...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jul 25, 20222 min read
Middle East Studies Association Protests Repeated Violations of Academic Freedom in Egypt
In an urgent appeal to Egyptian leaders and authorities, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has circulated a letter demanding the...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Update: Egyptian Court Re-Sentences Ahmed Samir Santawy to Three Years in Prison
In a retrial on July 4th, Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at Central European University (CEU), was re-sentenced to three years...
Zeynep Guney
May 1, 20222 min read
Egypt: A call for an open investigation regarding a prominent researcher’s mysterious death
The mysterious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud in custody adds to the long list of blatant human rights violations targeting scholars,...
Kennedy McCutchen
Mar 24, 20221 min read
Update on Ahmed Samir Santawy
According to Scholars at Risk, detained student Ahmed Samir Santawy’s retrial in Egypt was postponed for the third time to May 9, 2022....
Ihor Andriichuk
Mar 3, 20222 min read
Release Ahmed Samir Santawy
On January 25, 2022, the Vienna-based Central European University (CEU) held an online conference on academic freedom in Egypt to protest...
Ihor Andriichuk
Feb 24, 20222 min read
Two translators are still detained in Egypt
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned by the ongoing attacks on the freedom of expression in Egypt. As we reported on...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 20, 20211 min read
Alia Mosallam, Egyptian Academic Detained upon Arrival at Cairo Airport
On Sunday July 11, 2021 Egyptian security forces arrested Alia Mosallam, a historian and postdoctoral fellow at Germany’s Alexander van...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Egyptian Court Extends Arbitrary Detention of U of Bologna Student Patrick George Zaki Again
On June 9, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that an Egyptian Court renewed the detention of the University of Bologna...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 4, 20202 min read
Egyptian Court Rejects Appeal of University of Bologna Student Patrick George Zaki
On March 3, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that the detained University of Bologna researcher and student Patrick George...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 8, 20193 min read
New Home for Many Egyptian Academics: Jail
Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned about the arbitrary arrest and sentencing of Cairo University academics Hasan Nafaa,...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20192 min read
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...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 6, 20182 min read
University of Washington Political Science Student Detained in Egypt
On June 3, 2018, Walid Salem, a University of Washington doctoral student conducting research on Egypt’s judiciary system, was detained...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 1, 20151 min read
Prisoner of Conscience Mahmoud Hussein to Remain in Detention
Mahmoud Hussein, a 19-year-old student, has spent over 18 months in pretrial detention in Egypt after being arrested for wearing a shirt...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 11, 20151 min read
Renowned Scholar in Egypt Charged with Espionage
An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death, and this ruling also applies to another 106 people. Among them is...
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