Endangered Scholars Worldwide
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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 at the New School. In each issue we publish the names and details of scholars, researchers, and students who have been threatened or imprisoned, along with ways to offer them support. We see this effort as consistent not only with our own history as a journal but with the need to call attention to the increasing and often brutal attempts to silence our colleagues around the world.
If you are aware of a scholar or student whose case you believe we should investigate, please contact us at socres@newschool.edu.
The information in this report is current, to the best of our knowledge, as of February 24, 2014. Additional information and more recent information about many of these cases, as well as sample letters of protest, may be found on our website at http://www.newschool.edu/cps/endangered-scholars/.
Scholars and Researchers: New and Continuing Cases
Bahrain
Previously featured scholars from Bahrain who remain in prison include mahdi ‘issa mahdi abu dheeb, former president of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA), who was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on October 21, 2012, on charges of “inciting hatred against the regime” and “calling to overthrow and change the regime by force”; and dr. abduljalil al-singace, professor of engineering at the University of Bahrain, sentenced to life in prison by the military National Safety Court on charges of “plotting to topple” the government. [End Page v]
Please send appeals to:
| His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Isa | Dr. Fatima Al-Balooshi |
| l-Khalifa | Minister of Human Rights and Social |
| Office of His Majesty the King | Development |
| The Amiri Court | Acting Minister of Health |
| P.O. Box 555 | Ministry of Human Rights and |
| Rifa’a Palace | Development |
| Al-Manama | Manama |
| Kingdom of Bahrain | Tel: +973 176 82 422 |
| Fax: +973 176 64 587 | Kingdom of Bahrain |
| Website: http://www.mofa.gov.bh/ | Email: fatima.albalooshi@social.gov.bh/dr.albalooshi@gmail.com |
| Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fatima.albalooshi.3 |
| Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al-Khalifa | |
| Diplomatic Area | |
| P.O Box # 450 | |
| Al-Manama | |
| Kingdom of Bahrain | |
| Fax: +973 175 13 333 |
Cameroon
Previously featured scholar enoh meyomesse, a writer, political activist, historian, and founder of the Cameroon Writers Association, remains in prison. On December 27, 2012, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of illegally trafficking gold.
Please send appeals to:
| His Excellency Paul Biya | Dr. Chemuta Divine Banda, Chairman |
| President of the Republic of Cameroon | National Commission on Human Rights |
| Office of the President | and Freedoms |
| P.O. Box 100 | B.P. 20317 |
| Yaoundé | Yaounde |
| Republic of Cameroon | Cameroon |
| Email: https://www.prc.cm/en/contact | Phone: +237 22 22 61 17 |
| Website: https://www.prc.cm/en/ | Fax: +237 22 22 60 82 |
| Email: cndhl@iccnet.cm |
China
ilham tohti, an economics professor, distinguished Uyghur scholar, and activist who has taught at Beijing’s Minzu University, was arrested on [End Page vi] January 15, 2014, without any specific charges. According to his wife, his personal computers and phones were also seized by several police officers. Tohti is a prominent scholar of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. According to a report posted online on January 25 by Chinese authorities, Tohti is accused of leading a nationalist group that advocates the use of violence to overthrow the Chinese government in Xinjiang. As of February 20, 2014, Tohti’s location is unknown.
Scholars featured in previous issues who remain in prison in China include writer and editor tashi rabten (pen name Te’urang), sentenced to four years’ imprisonment on June 2, 2011, for his critical political writings; zhu jianrong a Chinese scholar, has been held incommunicado by Chinese authorities since mid-July 2013. He went missing at that time while on a trip to Shanghai and was unable to communicate with family until over three months later when a letter written by Zhu made it to his brother in Shanghai. The letter only confirms that he is being detained by Chinese authorities and does not specify when he...
