Iran Temporarily Releases French-Iranian Academic from Jail
Iran has temporarily released French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, detained in Iran since June 2019. Adelkhah was sentenced on May...
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Ebby Abramson
Aug 18, 20203 min read
Freed Detainees in Belarus Describe Harrowing Beatings
Reports suggest that people who were detained during the protests in the past few days in Belarus have been subjected to torture and...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 29, 20203 min read
Australian Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert Moved to Remote Prison in Iran Reportedly Rife with Covid 19
University lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert, jailed in Iran for spying, has been moved for "punishment reasons" to the harsh Qarchak prison...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 3, 20203 min read
Sajid Soomro: Another Pakistani Academic Falls Victim to Blasphemy Law
On June 28, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a Pakistani literature professor has been detained under Pakistan’s...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 10, 20202 min read
French President Macron Demands Tehran Release French-Iranian Academic
On Friday June 5, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded Tehran release the Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah. As we...
Dolunay Bulut
Jun 7, 20202 min read
18-year Old Student Imprisoned In Azerbaijan For Demanding Free Education
On June 1, 2020, a group of university students in Baku, Azerbaijan, gathered together for a peaceful protest in front of the Ministry of...
Ebby Abramson
May 20, 20202 min read
Fariba Adelkhah—French-Iranian Academic “Jailed for Six Years” in Iran
On May 16, 2020, Iran’s judiciary handed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah a five-year term for conspiring against national...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 29, 20202 min read
Iran Frees More than One Thousand Foreign Prisoners, but Not VUB Ahmadreza Djalali
Iranian authorities released around 1,000 prisoners earlier this week in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Iran’s overpopulated...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 29, 20203 min read
Open Letter to Release Iran’s Female Prisoners of Conscience During Pandemic
ESW asks the officials of the Iranian government for the immediate and unconditional release of Farbia Adelkhah.
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
Jan 24, 20203 min read
Letter of Appeal on Behalf of Kylie Moore-Gilbert Sentenced to Ten Years in Iran Prison
The academic describes being kept in solitary confinement at Evin jail, Tehran
Ebby Abramson
Nov 21, 20193 min read
Iran’s New Hostage-Taking Policy
Political hostage-takings are nothing new in Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has repeatedly taken foreign nationals and...
Dolunay Bulut
Nov 19, 20191 min read
Vietnamese University Lecturer Jailed for Online Posting
On November 15, 2019, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Vietnamese University lecturer Pham Xuan Hao, 54, was convicted to 12...
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
Oct 19, 20193 min read
Paris Confirms Iran has Detained Second French Researcher
On October 16, 2019, France confirmed that a second French academic is being detained in Iran. They have condemned the arrest as “an...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 17, 20191 min read
Letter of Appeal on Behalf of Kylie Moore-Gilbert Sentenced to Ten Years in Iran Prison
On September 16, 2019 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the The European...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 16, 20193 min read
Kameel Ahmady—British-Iranian Anthropologist Arrested in Iran
On August 14, 2019, the wife of British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady confirmed that her husband had been arrested on August 11...
Dolunay Bulut
Jun 18, 20192 min read
Turkey Sentences Three Peace Academics to Prison
The trials of Peace Academics, based on charges of terrorist propaganda, continue in the Istanbul Caglayan Courthouse. On June 13, 2019,...
Ebby Abramson
May 17, 20195 min read
Iranian Student Prisoner Parisa Rafiee Reveals Female Political Prisoners’ Suffering
On May 9, 2019, Iranian student activist Parisa Rafiee, who is serving a seven-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, published...
Ebby Abramson
May 3, 20192 min read
Ilham Tohti
In Brief Ilham Tohti, a public Uyghur intellectual and professor of economics at the Central Minorities University, was detained at the...
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