Another NYU Professor Comes Forward with Claims of Discrimination at NYUAD
In a letter addressed to President Andrew Hamilton and members of the NYU Abu Dhabi administration, 10 NYU professors called for greater...
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Ebby Abramson
Oct 2, 20172 min read
65-Year-Old Venezuelan Economist, Professor Santiago Guevara has lost 60 Pounds in Prison
It has been over six months since Santiago Guevara, a 65-year-old economist and professor who has taught at the University of Carabobo...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 25, 20172 min read
Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Professor Ahmadreza Djalali to Go on Trial for Espionage
Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian disaster-medicine researcher who was sent to prison in April 2016, is due to go to trial on September 27 on...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 18, 20173 min read
"He’s Doing Poorly," Says Wife of Princeton Student Jailed in Iran
Iran’s imprisonment of Xiyue Wang, a naturalized United States citizen from China who is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 6, 20172 min read
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Statement on the Decision to End DACA
On September 5, 2017, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is being...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 3, 20174 min read
Academics Targeted After Student Activists are Jailed
In the wake of the internationally-condemned jailing of the former student leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 student movement, including...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 2, 20172 min read
Sudan President Pardons Professor Mudawi Ibrahim Adam
On August 29, 2017, Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir granted a pardon to Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, an engineering professor at the University...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 21, 20172 min read
Academic Conference Delegates Charged with Violating Thai Junta's Ban on Political Gatherings
On August 21, 2017, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, the director of the Regional Centre for Social...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 3, 20172 min read
Thai Activist Jatupat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa on Trial for Facebook Share
On August 3, 2017, a court in northeastern Thailand began a closed-door trial of an activist law student arrested for sharing a BBC...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 24, 20172 min read
Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Sentenced to Death in Iran
Ahmadreza Djalali, a professor who was arrested for suspected espionage in Iran, has been sentenced to death, his wife, Vida Mehran-Nia,...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 23, 20173 min read
Nasa Scientist Researching Mission to Mars Still in Prison a Year on From Failed Turkey Coup
It has been over a year since Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old United States citizen of Turkish descent and physicist with the United States...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 17, 20172 min read
Iran Sentences Princeton Graduate Student to 10 Years for Espionage
An Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 16, 20172 min read
Turkey Removes 7,563 More from Public Service a Day Before Failed Coup’s Anniversary
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 16, 20172 min read
Liu Xiaobo's Friends Renew Calls for Greater Democracy in China in Wake of Nobel Peace Prize
Friends of China's most prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo have accused the Chinese Government of violating human rights after the activist...
Dolunay Bulut
Jul 7, 20172 min read
Turkey Suspends 12 More Academics for Signing Peace Declaration
Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016,...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 29, 20176 min read
Turkish Scholars in the US Face a Difficult Decision on Speaking Out
Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 26, 20171 min read
Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Released from Prison with Terminal Cancer
Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 21, 20172 min read
Vietnam Strips French-Vietnamese Professor of Citizenship
On June 10, 2017, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang signed a special order into effect that stripped French-Vietnamese mathematician...
Dolunay Bulut
May 31, 20172 min read
Turkey Jails Academics on Hunger Strike Over Losing Their Jobs in Post-Coup Purge
Two Turkish academics are facing months or even years in prison after being arrested for launching a hunger strike in protest of being...
Ebby Abramson
May 24, 20172 min read
Thai Student Activists Petition Against Contempt of Court Charges
On May 22, 2017, Jatuphat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa, a law student and key member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM), was taken to the...
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