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May 10, 20162 min read

Turkish Academics Demanding Peace for Kurds Receive the Prestigious Aachen Peace Award

A group of more than 1,100 academics calling for an end of Turkish state violence against the country's Kurdish population won the...

Apr 25, 20162 min read

Bangladeshi Professor Hacked to Death

A professor of English was hacked to death and nearly beheaded near his home in northwestern Bangladesh on Saturday, in what the police...

Apr 13, 20161 min read

Myanmar—Lin Htet Naing and Phyoe Phyoe Aung Released

According to Amnesty International, student leaders Phyoe Phyoe Aung and Lin Htet Naing (aka James and Aung Thant Zin) were released on...

Apr 12, 20162 min read

Mahdi Abu Dheeb—Free At Last

Mahdi Abu Dheeb, the founder and leader of the Bahrain Teachers Association who was arrested and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment...

Mar 17, 20164 min read

Turkish Scholars Fired, Arrested, and Detained

Turkish authorities arrested three scholars who held a press conference on March 10 in connection with signing the petition “We will not...

Mar 16, 20162 min read

Indian Student May Be Expelled

A student leader from a top university in India charged with sedition may be expelled from campus, reports say. Kanhaiya Kumar was...

Jan 29, 20161 min read

Endangered Scholars Worldwide Supports Academics Under Attack in Turkey

In the latest example of the Turkish government's pressure on scholars, 1,200 academics from 89 universities who signed a statement that...