Endangered Scholars Worldwide is gravely concerned over the ongoing detention of Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian professor of...

Iranian authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian professor of social anthropology, the latest in a string of cases involving dual...

Imprisoned Iranian laser scientist Omid Kokabee, who recently had surgery to remove a cancerous kidney, has been released on bail to...

The life of Iranian physicist and political prisoner Omid Kokabee, who recently had surgery to remove a cancerous kidney, will be put in...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide is gravely concerned for the safety of 12 Sudanese student activists who were detained without charges...

According to Newsnextbd, four suspected Islamists have been arrested for their suspected involvement in the last month’s murder at...

A group of more than 1,100 academics calling for an end of Turkish state violence against the country's Kurdish population won the...

Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a group* of UN human rights...

According to Radio Free Asia, the family of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti is facing extreme hardship and increasing isolation as his...

Imad al-Barghouti, a 53-year-old professor of astrophysics at al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, was arrested at an Israeli military...

A professor of English was hacked to death and nearly beheaded near his home in northwestern Bangladesh on Saturday, in what the police...

Thousands of Sudanese students have entered their second day of protests following the death of a student in North Kordofan, central...

Iranian physicist Omid Kokabee, who has been imprisoned in Tehran since 2011, is suffering from life-threatening kidney cancer, the...

The international scholarly community must take meaningful steps to support the Academics for Peace, says Mehmet Ugur. On January 10 of...

Faran Hesami, one of the imprisoned teachers from the Bahai Open University (BIHE), was released from Evin Prison in Tehran today at the...

According to Amnesty International, student leaders Phyoe Phyoe Aung and Lin Htet Naing (aka James and Aung Thant Zin) were released on...

Mahdi Abu Dheeb, the founder and leader of the Bahrain Teachers Association who was arrested and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment...

On March 31, 2016, members of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) temporarily detained Professor Benjamin Scharifker, rector of the...

Nazimuddin Samad, a law student and secular activist, was killed by three men armed with machetes in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. This...

Israeli forces stormed the campus of al-Quds University in the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis early on Tuesday morning, damaging...