Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, India
Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba is a professor and human rights activist wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Archived Appeals
Scholars at Risk coordinates advocacy activities on behalf of wrongfully imprisoned scholars and students through the Scholars in Prison Project. Listed below are cases that SAR has previously conducted public advocacy on behalf of. Click here to take action on behalf of Scholars in Prison.
Patrick George Zaki, Egypt
Patrick George Zaki is a postgraduate student at the University of Bologna, who is detained in Egypt in apparent retaliation for his peaceful human rights research.
Student case, Belarus
Authorities in Belarus have arrested a growing number of students in retaliation for their nonviolent participation in protests across the country over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Khalil Al-Halwachi, Bahrain
Khalil Al-Halwachi is a scholar of engineering and a peaceful political activist sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Marfa Rabkova, Belarus
Ms. Marfa Rabkova is a third-year student at the International Law and European Union Law program at European Humanities University (EHU), Lithuania, who has been imprisoned in Belarus since September 17, 2020. Nearly two years later, Ms. Rabkova was sentenced
Peter Biar Ajak, South Sudan
Peter Biar Ajak is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and is a prominent political activist who was imprisoned in South Sudan from July 28, 2018, to January 2, 2020.
Xiyue Wang, Iran
Xiyue Wang is a Princeton University PhD candidate who specializes in late 19th and early 20th-century Eurasian history and was arbitrarily imprisoned in Iran from August 7, 2016, to December 7, 2019.