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Bangladeshi Students Tortured Amid Crackdown on Protests
More than 266 people have been killed and around 20,000 injured in Bangladesh since the brutal crackdown on peaceful student protestors...
Maryam Mushtaq
Aug 4, 20242 min read


Bangladesh Government Authorities Violently Crack Down on Students Protesting Quota System
Protestors marching towards the President's house. Photo Credit: EFE On July 16, 2024, violent clashes erupted on multiple university...
Sababa Ahmed
Jul 17, 20243 min read


Economist Critical of the UAE Government Given Life Sentence in Unfair Mass Trial
Photo credit: Human Rights Watch On July 10, 2024, at least 40 persons were sentenced to prison for life in the United Arab Emirates...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Jul 16, 20242 min read


Prominent Azerbaijani Economist In House Arrest After Release From Prison
Gubad Ibadoghlu with his lawyers after his release from prison. Photo Credit: Ibad Bayramov Prominent economist and New University in...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Jun 28, 20242 min read


New Law Puts Academic Freedom in Georgia at Risk
Protestors gathered outside of the Georgian parliament. Photo credit: Bloomberg On Tuesday May 28th, 2024, the Georgian parliament...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Jun 2, 20243 min read


More Than 100 Students Arrested at Columbia University as Protests Spread
Photo credit: Stella Ragas , Columbia Daily Spectator On Thursday, April 18, 2024, New York Police Department (NYPD) officers arrested...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Apr 24, 20245 min read


India’s Hindu Nationalists Attack Muslim Students Praying on Campus
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Photo credit: News24 On March 16th, 2024, fifteen international Muslim students were attacked by a...
Maryam Mushtaq
Apr 10, 20242 min read


Tehran University Denies Mass Expulsion of Critics
University of Tehran. Photo credits: Wikipedia On March 14, 2024, the Chancellor of Tehran University, Mohammad Moghimi, denied claims of...
Maryam Mushtaq
Apr 10, 20242 min read


Invitation to Leading Scholar of Politics Withdrawn Over Open Letter Statements
Photo credit: Wikipedia On April 2, 2024, the Rectorate of the University of Cologne withdrew an earlier invitation sent to Prof. Nancy...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Apr 8, 20243 min read


Prominent Sociologist Detained in Turkey Over Field Research
Photo credit: Duvar English On March 23, Nükhet Sirman, a prominent Professor of sociology was detained in Istanbul, Turkey by the...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Mar 27, 20242 min read


More than 300 Students Kidnapped in Nigeria by Armed Groups
The school from which students were kidnapped on March 7. Photo credit: CNN The past week, over 300 students have been kidnapped by armed...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Mar 15, 20243 min read


Tehran University Tightens Hijab Mandate
Tehran University. Photo credits: Iran International On February 19th, 2024, Tehran University announced an increased presence of ‘Hijab...
Maryam Mushtaq
Mar 15, 20242 min read


Lecturer Dismissed from Catholic University for Class Content “Unaligned with Mission and Identity”
Photo Credit: PEN America The politically polarized atmosphere in the United States around reproductive rights following the Supreme...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Mar 11, 20243 min read


Human Rights Activist and Legal Scholar Imprisoned in Venezuela
Rocío San Miguel. Photo credit: NBC News Rocío San Miguel, a human rights activist, lawyer, and scholar, was detained by Venezuelan...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Feb 23, 20242 min read


Alexei Navalny: the Death of a Russian Hero
Photo Credit: France 24 Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) mourns the death of the courageous Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny who died...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Feb 17, 20241 min read


Chinese-Australian Scholar Given Suspended Death Sentence Amid Increasing Direct Control Over University Campuses
Photo Credit: CNN On February 5, 2024, a court in Beijing, China handed down a suspended death sentence to Chinese-Australian writer,...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Feb 15, 20243 min read


Russian Scholar and Activist Sentenced Under Anti-Terrorism Legislation
Boris Kagarlitsky. Photo credits: Amnesty International On February 13th, 2024, Russian sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky was...
Maryam Mushtaq
Feb 14, 20242 min read


Florida Removes Sociology as Core Class from 12 Public Universities
Florida Governor DeSantis. Source: ABC News On January 24th 2024, the Board of Education in Florida removed a sociology core course as an...
Maryam Mushtaq
Feb 6, 20242 min read


A Litmus Test for Academic Freedom: The Impact of the Israel/Palestine Crisis on U.S. Universities
A protest organized by student groups at Harvard University on October 14th. Photo credit: Reuters It has been two months since the...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Dec 18, 20235 min read


Academic Freedom Conditions in Africa 2022-2023
The Muhammad Omar Bashir Centre for Sudanese Studies at Ahlia University after the fire. Photo credit: NewArab A report by Scholars at...
Maryam Mushtaq
Nov 26, 20233 min read
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