We are publishing the statement of defense of Özyeğin University professor Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, who was tried at the Istanbul 32nd Heavy...

Serdar Bascetin, another member of the Academics for Peace initiative, was arrested. His social media posts were allegedly evidence of...

Onur Hamzaoglu, a professor of epidemiology and cospokesperson of the People's Democratic Congress (HDK), was detained with 16 others on...

Kavous Seyed Emami, a 63-year-old Iranian-Canadian environmental activist, died in prison in Tehran. Authorities claim Emami committed...

It has been over eighteen months since Serkan Golge, a 37-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent and physicist with NASA, was arrested in...

Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request to review the death sentence given to Ahmadreza Djalali, a university professor accused of...

Stony Brook University professor Patrice Nganang was released from prison in Cameroon by a court decision on December 27, 2017. Nganang,...

According to BBC Persian, the number of students detained has risen to 90 as protests continue in Iran. At least fourteen were arrested...

On December 20, 2017, four UN human rights experts called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an...

Iranian state TV has aired what it calls a confession by Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been sentenced to death...

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic convicted of espionage, as...

On December 8, 2017, Irfan Mukul, an assistant professor at the University of Sinop, was suspended from the university for visiting his...

According to the Associated Press, a Stony Brook University professor has been detained in Cameroon after the publication of an essay...

A Turkish academic on hunger strike for nearly nine months to protest her dismissal after last year’s failed coup has been released from...

American graduate student Xiyue Wang is “very desperate.” His wife, Qu Hua, told NBC News in a broadcast Tuesday that he attempted...

In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace...

Less than four months after the death from liver cancer of scholar, writer, and Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, another Chinese...

Veli Saçılık, a friend of the Turkish professor Nuriye Gülmen who started a hunger strike in order to protest her dismissal under state...

A judge in Tehran has ordered the death penalty for Iranian disaster-medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, according to his wife, Vida...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at a conference on...