On May 11, 2017, Mudawi Ibrahim was charged with undermining the constitutional system and waging war against the State. Both charges...

North Korea arrests another professor from the US over charges of allegedly being hostile to the state. Professor Kim Hak Song was...

Malaysia’s police chief confirmed the arrest of a former vice chair of a Turkish university who Ankara accuses of links to the last...

On April 13 Mashal Khan, 23, a student at Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, a town in Northwest Pakistan, was pulled from his dorm...

Ugandan academic and government critic Stella Nyanzi has been charged with a "cyber harassment" offense after repeatedly posting...

37 students who were members of the Federation of Opinion Clubs (FKF) at Istanbul University have been taken into custody for attempting...

The government-led witch hunt targeting the peaceful opposition in Turkey has cost two more academics their jobs. On March 27, 2017, Isik...

An Australian academic researching human rights and barred from leaving China by state security agents on suspicion of endangering...

On March 3, 2017, Venezuelan authorities arrested Santiago Guevara of the University of Carabobo in apparent retaliation for opinion...

As the constitutional referendum that proposes a regime change approaches, the Turkish government continues to silence the democratic...

Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, has been unlawfully detained for over two months. He is being held by...

Ahmadreza Djalali, a professor who was arrested for suspected espionage in Iran, has been sentenced to death, his wife Vida Mehran-Nia...

A Long Island PhD student from Iran has been detained at JFK for the past 24 hours following President Trump’s executive order...

Samira Asgari spent months planning her move from Switzerland to the United States. The 30-year-old Iranian woman had secured a...

As the sixth month of the emergency rule ends in Turkey, the government does not seem willing to end its witch-hunt, which has resulted...

On January 23, 2017, around 30 people went to the house of Indian sociologist and human rights defender Bela Bhatia in Pandripani...

Campaigners are stepping up their fight for answers ahead of the first anniversary of the brutal murder of Cambridge student Giulio...

A professor at the University of Maiduguri and a child were killed while 17 others were wounded on Monday in a twin suicide bombing,...

On January 6, 2017, the Turkish government issued three new emergency decrees that dismissed 8,390 civil servants from their positions in...

On November 30, Ethiopian security forces arrested Merera Gudina on the basis of rendering support to terrorism and attempting to...