Prosecution of Egyptian NGOs that Monitor Human Rights
Letter to Egyptian president protesting reopened prosecution of NGO researchers.
Letter to Egyptian president protesting reopened prosecution of NGO researchers.
Letter to the President and Regents of the University of California protesting the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism in the report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance.
Letter to PM Davutoglu (see previous letters of January 14, 2016 and February 22, 2016) concerning an escalation in government actions against Peace Petition signatories and their supporters including arrests, a deportation of a foreign academic and a declaration by the President that the Turkish Criminal Code will be amended to broaden the definition of terrorism to include academic activities.
Letter to Bahraini king protesting the denial of entry to Professor Abdulkhaleq Abdullah and the decision of Bahraini authorities to declare him persona non grata.
Letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and parliamentary leaders regarding the motion passed by Canada's parliament denouncing the BDS movement.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu (see previous letter of January 14, 2016) concerning the gravity and magnitude of the pattern of harassment, intimidation, prosecution and repression to which academics have been subjected as a consequence of signing the Peace Petition, followed by a comprehensive appendix detailing these violations of academic freedom.
e travel ban on graduate student Haydar Darıcı was lifted February 21, 2016.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu (see previous letter of January 5, 2015) concerning graduate student Haydar Darıcı, who is currently subject to a travel ban, preventing him to return to the US to continue his doctoral studies, and criminal indictment for his academic activities and writings, including twitter activity, with regard to the Kurds in Turkey.
Letter to Israeli authorities about army incursions, land confiscation, and seizures in Palestine Technical University University-Khadoorie in Tulkarm and Birzeit University in Ramallah.
Letter regarding increasing detentions and travel bans in Egypt.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding disciplinary proceedings against Assistant Professor Halil Ibrahim Yenigun who has been suspended by the university administration of Istanbul Commerce University for being a signatory of the Academics for Peace Petition.
Letter to Egyptian officials regarding the torture and murder in Cairo of Italian Ph.D. student Giulio Regeni, who was a visiting researcher at AUC.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding Professor Emerita, Adjunct Professor and anthropologist Sibel Özbudun who is facing two separate prosecutions related to comments and photographs that she posted on her Facebook page.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding Boğaziçi University Prof. Koray Çalışkan who is under criminal investigation for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan on Twitter.
Letter to Egyptian officials regarding the detention and interrogation of Tunisian Professor Amel Grami, invited to participate in an international conference.
Letter to the Emir of Qatar expressing concern over the continued imprisonment of poet Mohammed al-Ajami for reciting poems allegedly critical of Qatar's government.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu concerning Turkish Higher Education Council's condemnation of a peace petition signed by academics as "terrorist propaganda" triggering a series of disciplinary investigations at various universities, and initiation of criminal investigations, against signatory faculty members.
Letter to Rabbi Professor Daniel Hershkowitz expressing concern over procedures involved in the third-year review of Prof. Hanoch Sheinman of Bar Ilan University.
Letter urging the cancellation of presidential decrees impinging upon academic freedom.
Letter to Wheaton College President Philip Graham Ryken urging him to reject the provost's recommendation that "termination-for-cause" procedures be initiated against Professor Larycia Hawkins because certain statements she allegedly made are supposedly inconsistent with the college's Statement of Faith and calling on him to affirm Wheaton's commitment to uphold the principles of academic freedom.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu concerning recent changes made to the legal regulation of the Higher Education Council (Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu, or YÖK), enabling the Council to seize control of private universities, suspend the admission of new students, suspend academic programs, and shut down a university indefinitely.
Letter to PM Davutoglu concerning graduate student Haydar Darici who is currently subject to a travel ban, preventing him from returning to the US to continue his doctoral studies, and a criminal investigation related to his observation of a demonstration in Diyarbakir following his arrival for research.
Letter to Supreme Leader Khamenei concerning the arrest, conviction, and conditions of imprisonment of Professor Emeritus Mohammad Rafiee.