Ilham Tohti
In Brief Ilham Tohti, a public Uyghur intellectual and professor of economics at the Central Minorities University, was detained at the...
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Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee
In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Homa Hoodfar
In Brief Homa Hoodfar, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, was detained in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison on June 6,...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Saeed Madani
In Brief In June 2013 sociologist and political activist Saeed Madani was sentenced to six years in prison and ten years in exile on...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Sidig Noreen Abdalla
In Brief Sidig Noreen Ali Abdalla, a professor at West Kordofan University who served as a supervisor of the Greater Darfur Students'...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20192 min read
Abdul Jalil Al-Singace
In Brief (updated April 5, 2021) Abdul Jalil Al-Singace, a prominent human rights activist in Bahrain, was first arrested on March 17,...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Abdul Kareem Yousef Al-Khodr
In Brief Abdul Kareem Yousef Al-Khodr, a professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at Qassim University in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced in...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Syed Hamid Hussain
In Brief Syed Hamid Hussein, a 34-year-old chemistry professor at Bacha Khan University in northwest Pakistan, died on January 20, 2016...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
Naqib Khpulwak
In Brief Naqib Khpulwak, an assistant law professor at the American University in Kabul, Afghanistan, was among the 16 students and...
Ebby Abramson
Dec 5, 20161 min read
Ethiopian Professor Merera Gudina Detained After Trip to Europe
On November 30, Ethiopian security forces arrested Merera Gudina on the basis of rendering support to terrorism and attempting to...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20162 min read
Bangladeshi Professor Hacked to Death
A professor of English was hacked to death and nearly beheaded near his home in northwestern Bangladesh on Saturday, in what the police...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 11, 20151 min read
Renowned Scholar in Egypt Charged with Espionage
An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death, and this ruling also applies to another 106 people. Among them is...
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