On September 12, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the US Department of...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at a conference on...

On September 5, 2017, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is being...

Friends of China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, have issued a plea to Chinese authorities to be allowed...

It has been over eight months since Ethiopian security forces arrested opposition leader Professor Merera Gudina upon his return to the...

Fears grow for two Turkish academics whose health is deteriorating after more than 60 days on hunger strike, PEN International said...

On April 4, 2017, the Hungarian parliament voted in favor of a government plan to regulate foreign-based universities to the degree that...

Central European University (CEU) expresses its opposition to proposed amendments to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education,...

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

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

On October 24, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide and the Committee of Concerned Scientists transmitted a Joint Letter of Appeal to the...

23 Turkish academics who were allegedly using ByLock, a text messaging application, were detained last week as part of a witch-hunt...

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

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

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...

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...

On August 8, twenty professors who previously signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” were suspended from...