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...

Reports suggest that people who were detained during the protests in the past few days in Belarus have been subjected to torture and...

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

On June 28, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a Pakistani literature professor has been detained under Pakistan’s...

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

On June 1, 2020, a group of university students in Baku, Azerbaijan, gathered together for a peaceful protest in front of the Ministry of...

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.

On March 3, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that the detained University of Bologna researcher and student Patrick George...

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

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

On November 15, 2019, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Vietnamese University lecturer Pham Xuan Hao, 54, was convicted to 12...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned about the arbitrary arrest and sentencing of Cairo University academics Hasan Nafaa,...

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

On September 16, 2019 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the The European...

On August 14, 2019, the wife of British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady confirmed that her husband had been arrested on August 11...

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

In Brief Ilham Tohti, a public Uyghur intellectual and professor of economics at the Central Minorities University, was detained at the...