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Network announcements, press releases and other updates from the SAR Secretariat

Justice for Professor Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba

Scholars at Risk joins 18 human rights organizations in expressing grave concern for the well being of Professor Gokarakonda Naga Saibab and asking the Chief Justice of India to review Professor Saibaba’s case, reconsider the decision to suspend the Bombay

Free to Think 2022 – A Global Report on Academic Freedom

On November 8, 2022, Scholars at Risk released Free to Think 2022, a report analyzing 391 attacks in 65 countries and territories, between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022. The report underscores the pervasive and urgent problem of attacks

Free to Think 2022: Armed conflict and clampdowns on discourse and dissent threaten scholars and students around the world

NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2022 — Scholars at Risk (SAR) has released Free To Think 2022, a report analyzing 391 attacks in 65 countries and territories, between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022. The report underscores the pervasive and

Growing support for at-risk scholars in SAR Flanders

In the autumn of 2021, five universities in Belgium’s northern region of Flanders decided to intensify their support of SAR’s activities. By December 10th, on International Human Rights Day 2021, we officially formed a SAR Flanders section. Since then, two

SAR’s October 2022 Newsletter

Scholars at Risk is pleased to share our October 2022 newsletter. Sign up for SAR’s monthly newsletter here.

Israel: SAR files submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review

On October 11, 2022, SAR submitted a report on Israel to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The report, which was prepared with assistance from the University of Turino’s Strategic Litigation International Legal Human Rights Clinic, focuses on attacks

Iran students abroad stand in solidarity as peers lead uprisings

“Iranians studying abroad have taken to the streets in solidarity with the student-led, anti-government protests that erupted across Iran in September, while efforts have begun to protect Iranian scholars involved in the uprising. […] Scholars at Risk told The PIE News that

Network Reflections: “Courage, determination, dignity, and life-long friends” at the University of Agder, Norway

The University of Agder (UiA) has been a member of Scholars at Risk (SAR) since 2009 and was instrumental in the creation of a Norwegian section in 2011. In the past six years, Agder has supported nine scholars, and also

SAR Student Advocacy Seminars Advocated for 10 Unjustly Imprisoned Scholars and Students in the 2021-22 Year

[NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2022] — Scholars at Risk (SAR) published its inaugural Student Advocacy Seminar end-of-year report detailing the research and advocacy work of over 320 students at 16 universities in 8 different countries during the 2021-2022 academic year.

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Scholars at Risk September 2022 Newsletter

Scholars at Risk is pleased to share the September 2022 newsletter. Sign up for SAR’s monthly newsletter here.

Network Reflections: A Window of Opportunity to Act in Sweden

In the early years, when SAR Sweden launched in 2016, very few scholars were hosted in the country. Over time, we expanded through outreach to universities and actors outside academia, developed new funding streams, and took advantage of opportunities to

A Voice for the Hazara People

As a scholar of private law with over a decade of experience, Prof. Dr. Adbullah Shafaee conducts research on family law, constitutional law, property law, Islamic law, and women’s law, among others, and has been involved in drafting and amending

Immediately release Marfa Rabkova

Scholars at Risk sent the below letter to authorities in Belarus expressing grave concern over the 15 year prison sentence given to Marfa Rabkova and calling for her immediate release. After nearly two years in pretrial detention, on September 6,