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.

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.

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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

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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

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