{"id":65306,"date":"2026-08-20T21:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/65306"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:53:11","slug":"ghent-university-suspends-academic-who-questioned-jason-arday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/65306","title":{"rendered":"Ghent University suspends academic who questioned Jason Arday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>PARIS- Nathan Cofnas, the academic who had \u200braised plagiarism concerns \u200cregarding the late Cambridge professor\u00a0Jason Arday, said on Thursday \u200bthat he had \u200bbeen suspended by Belgium\u2019s \u2060Ghent University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just \u200bsuspended by Ghent University. \u200bThey will almost certainly fire me,\u201d Cofnas wrote on \u200bhis X account.<\/p>\n<p>Ghent University \u200bdid not immediately respond to \u200ca \u2060Reuters\u2019 email requesting comment.<\/p>\n<p>Arday, once hailed as Cambridge\u2019s youngest Black professor, was \u200bfound \u200bdead \u2060last Friday after weeks of intense \u200bscrutiny over accusations \u200bof \u2060plagiarism and other claims. Arday denied the allegation \u2060of \u200bplagiarism but \u200backnowledged making mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/ghent-university-suspends-academic-who-questioned-jason-arday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS- Nathan Cofnas, the academic who had \u200braised plagiarism concerns \u200cregarding the late Cambridge professor\u00a0Jason Arday, said on Thursday \u200bthat he had \u200bbeen suspended by Belgium\u2019s \u2060Ghent University. \u201cI was just \u200bsuspended by Ghent University. \u200bThey will almost certainly fire me,\u201d Cofnas wrote on \u200bhis X account. Ghent University \u200bdid not immediately respond to \u200ca \u2060Reuters\u2019 email requesting comment. Arday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-18-1-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":3189,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":3189,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65308,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65306\/revisions\/65308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}