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Russian Anti-War Academics Punished by Russian Government and Higher Education Administrators
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine heads into its fifth month, Russian academics who have protested Russia’s perpetration of war continue...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jun 7, 20223 min read


Resources for Ukrainian Students
Please see the list below for resources related to Ukrainian undergraduate and graduate students. Article 26 Backpack: UC Davis has...
Kennedy McCutchen
May 31, 20222 min read


A Travesty of Justice: Turkey Imprisons Prominent Civil Society Activists For Life
On April 25, 2022, toward the ninth anniversary of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, the final hearing of the Gezi trial took place. The...
Dolunay Bulut
May 27, 20223 min read

Sectarian Mob Violence Killed Another Student in Nigeria
On May 12, 2022, in the Shehu Shagari College of Education, located in Nigeria’s northwesternmost state of Sokoto, a female student,...
Dolunay Bulut
May 24, 20222 min read


Berlin Declaration Calls for International Solidarity with Threatened Scholars
On 3-5 May 2022, “G7+ Partners”[1], the leadership built by international education agencies, came together in Berlin with Academic...
Zeynep Guney
May 23, 20222 min read


URGENT: Halt the execution and immediately release Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali
On May 4, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Iran’s judiciary was taking steps to carry out its death sentence against...
Zeynep Guney
May 16, 20222 min read

Resources available for Afghan students, scholars, and others
Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) stands by the students and scholars of Afghanistan whose academic and personal lives have been at...
Kennedy McCutchen
May 9, 20222 min read

Kashmir University Scholar Arrested for Ten Years Old Article
On April 17, 2022, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) of India, which recently created anti-terror branches in the country’s prominent...
Zeynep Guney
May 9, 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,...
Zeynep Guney
May 1, 20222 min read

Russian University Ordered to Expel Anti-War Student Protesters
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, anti-war protests across Russia and the government crackdown to intimidate protesters also...
Kennedy McCutchen
Apr 27, 20222 min read


Judge to Violate Constitutional Rights in Trial of Bogazici University Students
As the Bogazici resistance marked one year in January 2022, there were protests both in the university and in front of the Silivri Prison...
Zeynep Guney
Apr 20, 20222 min read


Bogazici Continues to Resist Under Government Attacks
What has been happening at Boğaziçi University since early 2021 perfectly epitomizes the Erdogan government’s systematic attacks on...
Zeynep Guney
Apr 20, 20222 min read

Release Morad Tahbaz
Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to condemn the ongoing unwarranted detention of Iranian, dual national, and international...
Maryam Mushtaq
Apr 19, 20222 min read


Ways to help Ukrainian Students and Scholars
Endangered Scholars Worldwide emphatically condemns the ongoing war in Ukraine perpetrated by Russian military aggression. In order to...
Kennedy McCutchen
Apr 15, 20222 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....
Kennedy McCutchen
Mar 24, 20221 min read


‘Do not comment on Ukraine’, South African government cautions public science institutions
Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and is opposed to the attempt by the South African Department of Science to caution...
Maryam Mushtaq
Mar 24, 20221 min read


Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium
We, members of the American and international academic community, professors and students alike, emphatically condemn the Russian...
New University in Exile Consortium
Mar 18, 20222 min read


“Amid Crisis in Ukraine, Brown Community Unites to provide support, host discussions”
Published by Brown News, on March 3, 2022 Brown, in partnership with University in Exile Consortium and Scholars at Risk, is working to...
Brown News
Mar 4, 20221 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
Mar 3, 20222 min read


New Essay: “Medusa of War – Putin on Ukraine”
Published by Democracy Seminar on February 26, 2022 By: Irena Grudzińska-Gross Author and professor Irena Grudzińska-Gross reflects on...
Irena Grudzińska-Gross
Feb 28, 20221 min read
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