Serkan Golge, a NASA researcher and an American-Turkish dual citizen of Turkish descent, was sentenced to seven and a half years in...

Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights activist and critic of the Communist Party of China, has closely followed the case of Ilham Tohti, an...

A Brazilian medical student and 350 other people have been killed amid the political unrest that has rocked Nicaragua since April 2018....

In July 2018 Israeli forces raided Hind al-Husaini College and al-Quds University under orders from Minister of Public Security Gilad...

According to a report published by BBC Persian on July 22, 2018, some 120 academics from universities across Iran issued an open letter...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree stripping much of the country’s Council of Higher Education's (YOK) supervisory...

In July 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi, a prominent women's rights advocate and writer at the...

On July 10, 2018, Chinese authorities finally ended their de facto house arrest of Liu Xia, a painter, poet, and the widow of Liu...

On July 17, 2018, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Bahraini professor and human rights defender Abduljalil Al-Singace has been...

Liu Xia, the widow of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, arrived in Berlin, having left Beijing after almost eight years of living under...

On July 8, 2018, the Turkish state issued the 10th statutory decree since the coup attempt in July 2016, which discharged another 18,632...

On June 3, 2018, Walid Salem, a University of Washington doctoral student conducting research on Egypt’s judiciary system, was detained...

On May 10, 2018, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that jailed Bahraini professor and human rights defender Abduljalil Al-Singace is...

Supporters of Xiyue Wang, the Princeton University graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran for almost two years, will hold a...

Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor at the Imperial College of London, has been arrested by security forces in Tehran, according to...

Globalization of higher education is an extraordinary social achievement and has turned universities into the most diverse,...

On March 19, 2018, a group of students from the Society for Islamic Research (BISAK) at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University opened a stand at...

On April 5, 2018, a Turkish court sentenced two prominent Turkish academics to fifteen months in prison on charges of “disseminating...

The rector of the University of Copenhagen has signed a letter expressing concern over the death sentence issued against Ahmadreza...

Sedat Laçiner, a renowned Turkish academic and political scientist who was arrested in the wake of a controversial military coup on July...