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From Summer 2007 onwards, Social Research will dedicate a section of each issue to a listing of endangered and imprisoned scholars worldwide. We publish the names of these scholars and provide further details, along with draft letters of protest to the people responsible for their arrest and treatment. Our hope is that world opinion will help persuade them to free the individuals they unjustly imprison and persecute. |
Endangered Scholars Event
Thursday, February 7, 2008
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
View video of program
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Social Research was founded by a group of scholars known as "The University in Exile", refugees from Nazi Europe who found a home in The New School. Now, 75 years later we see this new effort as consistent not only with our own history as a journal but with the need to call attention to the increasing, often brutal, attempts to silence our colleagues around the world.
If you would like to recieve updates about the scholars on our lists or have any information about cases of scholars facing repression please email us at socres@newschool.edu
Please click on the names of the scholars below for more information and means to register support. You can additionally click here for a list of scholars denied entry to the US. |
Spring 2008
- Dr ‘Abdullah al-Hamid
A Saudi Arabian writer and professor of literature Riyadh currently serving a four months prison sentence for “incitement to protest.”
- Dr. Ussama al-Mulla
A professor of dentistry at Baghdad University arrested without charge February 2008.
- Amin Ghazaei
Iranian writer and student leader arrested without charge January 2008.
- Dr. Atilla Yayla
A professor of politics at Gazi University in Turkey, received a fifteen month suspended sentence in January 2008 for comments deemed insulting to Turkey’s founder Ataturk.
Winter 2007
- Emadeddin Baghi released
A writer, former University teacher, and campaigner for human rights in Iran arrested in Fall 2007 on charges of "propoganda against the state" and "public disclosure of state secrets."
- Mehrnoushe Solouki released
A filmmaker and graduate student at the Université de Québec à Montréal arrested in Spring 2007 after uncovering evidence of a mass grave near Tehran.
- Dr. Lü Gengsong
A Chinese writer, activist, and former University teacher, arrested Summer 2007 on charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and "illegally possessing state secrets."
- Dr. Hu Shigen
A lecturer at Beijing Language Institute and founding member of the China Freedom and Democracy Party arrested in 1992 on "counter-revolutionary" charges.
- Dr. Zheng Yichun
A professor of english at Liaoning University, China arrested Winter 2004, and charged with “suspicion of inciting subversion of state power.”
- Dr. Anwar Hossain, Dr. Harunor-Rashid, Dr. Sadrul Amin, Dr. Neem Chandra Bhoumik, Dr. Sabbir Sattar Tapu, Dr. Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan Sajal released
Professors at Dhaka and Rajshahi University, Bangladesh arrested Summer 2007 for violating security rules in connection with the organisation of demonstrations against police repression.
Fall 2007
- Dr. 'Aref Dalilah
A former Dean of Economics at Aleppo University, Damascus who has campaigned against corruption and for freedom of expression. Arrested in Fall 2001 in Syria on charges of "attempting to change the constitution by illegal means."
- Dr. Igor Sutyagin
A researcher at the US and Canada Institute in Moscow arrested in Russia in Spring 2004 and sentenced to 15 years hard labor for treason and espionage.
- Ko Aung Htun
A writer and and former student activist arrested in Burma in Winter 1998 and sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment under charges of violating state censorship and unlawful association.
- Xu Zerong
A professor affiliated with the Provincial Academy of Science and Zhongshan University, China, arrested in 2002 and charged with revealing state secrets for his use of historical materials in researching the Korean War.
Summer 2007
- Dr. Berhanu Nega released
An economist and New School Alumni arrested in Ethiopia in Fall 2005 and charged with treason for his leading role in the democratic opposition movement.
- Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh released
A social scientist and former professor at the New School for Social Research arrested in Iran in Spring 2007 and charged with spying for the United States.
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