More than five years after his arrest, Li Ning of China Agricultural University is convicted of stealing nearly $5 million of grant money.

Researchers continued to meet and accept funding from the wealthy donor even after he was convicted of sex crimes in 2008.

The researcher stole genetically modified seeds and planned to give them to a crop research institute in China, the US Justice Department says.

Eight academics are among those being unfairly persecuted by Turkish officials, according to a new report from scientific academies’ human rights committees.

A leading Turkish academic imprisoned in 2012 on what his supporters say are unjust charges unsuccessfully tried to take his own life.
 

A researcher working for a US pharmaceutical company’s Scotland branch is sent to prison for falsifying safety test data on experimental drugs due for clinical trials.

African justice systems must change to help curb HIV and tuberculosis transmission in prisons.