SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project investigates and reports attacks on higher education with the aim of raising awareness, generating advocacy, and increasing protection for scholars, students, and academic communities. Learn more.
Results
On August 27, 2022, police arrested at least one student participating in a protest against Iran’s compulsory military service. The Student Justice Movement organized the demonstration in front of Iran’s Public Conscription Organization office in Tehran. The demonstration was reportedly peaceful, ...
On August 19, 2022, at least six members of a student group known as the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) physically attacked three members from a students rights organization at the University of Dhaka. At a press conference, BCL members who had ...
On August 19, 2022, on the University Of Rajshahi campus, members of a student group known as the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) assaulted Samsul Islam, a fourth-year student, reportedly beating him with a rod in a locked room over the ...
On August 15, 2022, unknown individuals engaged in a series of violent and destructive acts on the campus of the University of Ouahigouya. On August 15, a campus building was set on fire; it took firefighters until the next day to ...
On August 7, 2022, at least 15 student activists affiliated with progressive student organizations were injured in attacks by police during a demonstration near the University of Dhaka. The students were protesting against an increase in fuel prices recently announced ...
On August 5, 2022, Israel conducted airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, damaging a branch of Al-Quds Open University in northern Gaza, injuring hundreds, and killing several students. The attack reportedly took place amidst mounting tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinian militant ...
On August 2, 2022, police assaulted and detained students participating in a peaceful protest at Gauhati University. At least 500 students from Gauhati University and affiliated colleges had gathered to demand a re-evaluation of their 5th semester exams, alleging irregularities. As ...
On July 29, 2022, police raided the home of researcher Dae-il Jeong, who studies the North Korean Juche ideology at the Korea Institute for National Unification. The police conducted a search and seizure of property at Jeong’s residence on charges that ...
On July 28, 2022, security forces assaulted medical students as they tried to enter the Elsheikh Abdallah Elbadri University (EAEU) campus to participate in a sit-in demonstration. The medical students had staged the demonstration to ask EAEU to delay the graduation ...
On July 26, 2022, members of the Congress for Democratic Change Council of Patriots (CDC-COP), a pro government group, assaulted members of the Students Unification Party (SUP) from the University of Liberia during a nonviolent protest in front of the ...