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.
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Police and students clashed violently during a protest march over proposed educational reforms and the abolition of Greece's university asylum law
On October 8, 2019, a bomb exploded in a classroom at Ghazni University, injuring at least twenty-one students. Reports indicate the explosive device was detonated in a classroom at the Faculty of Arts while classes were in session. Thirteen students were ...
On October 8, 2019, police reportedly arrested dozens of students from various universities holding a peaceful protest calling for democratic reform in Algeria. Protests have spread across Algeria since February 2019, when the country’s president of 20 years, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, announced ...
On October 8, 2019, Indian authorities reportedly arrested Tenzin Norbu, a Tibetan assistant professor at Hindustan College, in an apparent attempt to prevent protests while China’s president was visiting India. Indian president Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Xinping were scheduled ...
On October 6, 2019, riot police reportedly detained five students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in connection with their expressive activity. Since April 2019, Hong Kong has been engulfed in protests, first sparked by a controversial bill (that ...
On October 6, 2019, suspected members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling political party, reportedly killed Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET) student, Abrar Fahad, in apparent retaliation for his social media activity and ...
On October 3, 2019, violent clashes broke out between opposing student groups during a protest on the Jagannath University (JnU) campus. Members of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), held a protest march ...
On September 28, 2019, Hong Kong border authorities reportedly refused to permit American political scientist and author Dan Garrett to enter the country, in apparent retaliation for his public expression related to democracy and human rights in the region. Garrett holds ...
On September 24, student demonstrators and police clashed violently during the second day of protests against anti-corruption legislation and a draft criminal code. More than three hundred protesters and police were reportedly treated for injuries sustained during the protest. Hundreds of ...
On September 16, 2019, unidentified individuals carried out a violent attack on a bus carrying Ghazni University students, killing the driver and injuring five students. Sources indicate that a magnetic explosive device had been rigged to the bus, which is reportedly ...