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 January 16, 2020, Iranian security forces reportedly detained at least eight University of Tehran students in apparent connection with their alleged plans to participate in a student protest over the Iranian government’s role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner ...
On January 16, 2020, two students from Visva Bharati University were reportedly assaulted for organizing campus protests against a citizenship bill that had recently been signed into law. The students, Phalguni Pan and Swapnaneel Mukhopadhyay, are members of the Students Federation ...
On January 12, 2019, violent clashes broke out between protesters and Iraqi security services at the University of Wasit, resulting in injuries to fifty-nine people and damage to the university entrance.
On January 11, 2020 police reportedly fired tear gas at student demonstrators from Amirkabir University of Technology protesting the role of the Iranian military in shooting downing an airliner on January 8. Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed shortly after takeoff ...
On January 9, 2020, police beat and detained several Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students protesting a recent violent attack that had occurred on campus. On January 5, a mob of roughly fifty masked men stormed JNU and violently attacked leftist students ...
Beginning on January 6, 2020, a number of violent clashes between police and students broke out at the University of Kinshasa, leaving one police officer dead and several others injured.
On January 5, 2020, a mob of masked individuals carried out a politically-motivated attack on students and professors at Jawaharlal Nehru University, leaving at least thirty-four injured. The attack began between 7 and 8 PM, when a group of roughly fifty ...
On January 2, 2020, Turkish police reportedly used force during a student protest at Istanbul University (IU) over a recently announced hike in meal costs. The protest was in response to a decision announced by the IU administration on December 31, ...
On December 30, 2019, a group of individuals alleged to be members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling Hindu nationalist political party, reportedly attacked a Jadavpur University (JU) professor in retaliation for protesting a speaker’s remarks at a ...
On December 22, 2019, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu Arabi-Farsi University expelled undergraduate student Ahmed Raza Khan for calling on students to protest a citizenship bill that had recently been signed into law.