Iranian student activist and women human rights defender Bahareh Hedayat has been released from prison after serving nearly seven years....

Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been permanently removed from their positions...

The day after his conditional release from Evin Prison in northwestern Tehran, Twitter became the platform of choice to communicate...

Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor who was arrested by Iranian authorities on June 6, has been hospitalized in Iran, according to...

Imprisoned Iranian laser scientist Omid Kokabee, who was on brief medical leave to recuperate from kidney-cancer surgery, has been...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide remembers Naqib Khpulwak, a law professor who was killed in an attack on the American University of...

Arrest warrants have been issued for 44 academics from Istanbul University, 29 from Selcuk University, and 12 from Abant İzzet Baysal...

On August 16 a university in Azerbaijan fired 50 Turkish educators for alleged links to cleric Fethullah Gulen. Elmar Qasymov, acting...

Turkey's Council of Higher Education (YÖK) announced on Friday that a number of academics and administrative staff members at public and...

Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old NASA physicist of Turkish descent, was arrested on August 6 and formally accused of involvement with the...

A Chinese court sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng to seven years in prison. Zhou’s Beijing-based law firm, Fengrui, has defended some of...

On August 6, 2016, Thai police arrested Jatupat Boonphatthararaksa, 25, a prominent activist from the New Democracy Movement (NDM), as he...

Candan Badem of the Department of History at Tunceli University has been taken into the custody aftern being suspended from his position...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned over recent reports from Turkey regarding the plight of the academic community. Since...

Anadolu news agency reported that Turkey's Board of Higher Education has requested the resignations of 1,577 university deans at state...

Tahmid Hasib Khan, a 22-year-old University of Toronto student and permanent resident of Canada, has been in custody in Dhaka ever since...

People in Birkat Seira in North Darfur demonstrated against the murder of a university student by a militiaman on Tuesday. Demonstrators...

Chris Stephenson, who was detained and sued on the charge of “terrorist organization propaganda” for having a Newroz notice of the...

On Monday a Turkish court ordered the detention of Erol Onderoglu from Reporters Without Borders; journalist Ahmet Nesin; and Professor...

Bilgi University confirmed that Professor Zeynep Sayın Balıkçıoğlu was fired after "insulting the Turkish president during a lecture"...