Dismissed from his university job, Guzey now makes musical instrumentsDismissals by ’emergency decree’Many of his 2,200 colleagues who also signed the Academics for Peace petition in 2016 faced similar consequences. As academics in this country, we declare that we will not be accomplices in this massacre,” stated the group. By December 2017, 549 academics had lost their jobs, disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against 505, and 691 were on trial. Another lawyer, Ali Soydan, who represents 20 of the accused academics, is also skeptical about the proceedings. Today, the dismissed academics are pursuing a variety of vocations in order to survive; those who did not receive a travel ban have gone into exile.

Source: Egypt Independent April 30, 2019 09:00 UTC