Corrected Incidents Archive

Reports listed below were discovered after publication and following additional review not to have qualified under SAR's reporting standards. These reports have since been removed from the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project Index, but have been included below for archival purposes.

2019-01-02 Çankaya University

On January 2, 2019, a student at Çankaya University reportedly killed research assistant Ceren Damar Şenel. The student reportedly confessed to killing Damar Şenel after she had reported him to university officials for cheating on an exam.

2018-10-25 Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

On May 14, 2019, SAR reported on the prosecution of four professors for serving on an electoral commission set up by the Parliament of Catalonia in September 2017. Upon further review, the conduct alleged in the prosecution relates chiefly to

2014-06-16 Central Minzu University

On June 19, 2014, SAR issued a report based on credible news reports that Professor Ilham Tohti had been detained incommunicado and tried and sentenced in secret, in connection with charges of separatism or inciting separatism. Following initial publication

2013-12-28 al-Imam al-Aadam College Iraq Mosul

In 2014, Scholars at Risk erroneously reported the December 2013 killing of Professor Bashar Awad Marouf, a prominent historian and Islamic scholar, by unknown gunmen in Mosul City, Iraq. The report was based on source information that SAR has since