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 May 3, police detained five students peacefully protesting a decision by Azerbaijan State Economic University (ASEU) to revoke a policy that aided students taking exams amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. A small number of student activists from a group known as ...
On April 17, 2021, police deployed tear gas and fired gunshots into the air to disperse students protesting a national increase in tuition fees at universities. Over 250 students gathered in Luanda for a protest organized by the Angolan Students’ Movement ...
On April 23, 2021, an improvised explosive device was discovered in a bathroom on Universidade Paulista’s (UNIP) campus, forcing students and faculty to evacuate. At around 2:00 PM on April 23, a university employee found the device inside a men’s bathroom ...
On April 21, 2021, the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) fired Associate Professor Dr. Martin Osikovski for his public criticism of Prime Minister Bokyo Borissov’s visit to the school. On April 2, PM Borissov, a member of the conservative ...
On April 20, 2021, gunmen raided Greenfield University, kidnapping as many as twenty students and killing one university employee. Police in Kaduna State, where the university is located, announced that an attack took place on the campus on Tuesday evening at ...
On April 20, 2021, a group of students set fire to the door of an administrative building at the National University of Huancavelica amidst protests. For several days, students had been protesting for a series of demands related to the COVID-19 ...
On April 19, 2021, violence broke out amidst student protests on the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) campus, resulting in the university shutting down. Since March 8, students at many South African universities have protested policies that exclude students who owe tuition ...
On April 19, 2021, Turkish prosecutors indicted 97 people who joined student protests at Boğaziçi University on February 1, 2021, seeking jail terms of six months to three years. Since early January, students and faculty have held frequent protests in response ...
On April 15, 2021, Chinese state media published reports of investigations into three mainland students in apparent relation to their nonviolent expressive activity, including their support of Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests. Authorities reportedly arrested two of the students. Starting in ...
On April 14, 2021, police raided the office of a student magazine and arrested four student editors in connection with a video they had posted on their magazine’s website. On January 26, 2021, it was reported that the Federal Service for ...