Iran, one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has temporarily released around 85,000 prisoners due to the fear of...

On Friday, February 12, 2021, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a court in Tehran has sentenced Reza Eslami, a dual...

A British-Iranian anthropologist who was sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran for “cooperating with a hostile state...

On December 2, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) learned that Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish specialist in emergency...

Australian university lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert is finally on home soil following a two-year detention ordeal in Iran. On Wednesday,...

On October 26, 2020 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that University lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert, jailed in Iran for spying, has...

Iran has temporarily released French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, detained in Iran since June 2019. Adelkhah was sentenced on May...

University lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert, jailed in Iran for spying, has been moved for "punishment reasons" to the harsh Qarchak prison...

On Friday June 5, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded Tehran release the Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah. As we...

On May 16, 2020, Iran’s judiciary handed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah a five-year term for conspiring against national...

Iranian authorities released around 1,000 prisoners earlier this week in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Iran’s overpopulated...

ESW asks the officials of the Iranian government for the immediate and unconditional release of Farbia Adelkhah.

Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that on March 21, 2020 Iran freed Roland Marchal after a prisoner swap with France. Marchal was...

Last September, Reihana Emami Arandi boarded a flight from Tehran and made her way to Boston, eager to study theology at an Ivy League...

The academic describes being kept in solitary confinement at Evin jail, Tehran

On January 20, 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officials at Logan International Airport denied entry to an Iranian national...

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...

Political hostage-takings are nothing new in Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has repeatedly taken foreign nationals and...

Iranian authorities have released British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady who had been arrested on August 11 on “unspecified charges...

On October 16, 2019, France confirmed that a second French academic is being detained in Iran. They have condemned the arrest as “an...