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Harvard provides temporary refuge for persecuted scholars

Program offers academics who face trouble at home support for a year

By David Filipov

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 08, 2012

Scholars at Risk, a nationwide program with a small branch at Harvard, offers a year of support to writers, scientists, researchers and political figures who face persecution in their home countries. It has, in recent years, taken in an Iranian writer who can no longer publish his work at home; a historian from Kyrgyzstan who escaped two assassination attempts for his investigations of government corruption; and a mathematician from Sri Lanka forced into hiding because of his human rights activism.

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