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 February 10, 20120, Iraqi security forces opened fire on students and other protesters in front of Al Ain University in Dhi Qar Governorate, leaving one protester dead and several others injured.
On February 10, 2020, police used violent force against Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) students taking part in a protest march against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act. Dozens of protesters were reportedly injured as a result. Since December 2019, students at universities across ...
On February 7, 2020, the School of Humanities and Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) announced that they have dismissed Chau Pui-yi, a lecturer in the department of social work, for a social media post criticizing China’s political system ...
On February 7, 2020, Egyptian authorities arrested Patrick George Zaki, a postgraduate student in gender studies at the University of Bologna, apparently in connection with his human rights activism and research. In addition to his university studies, Zaki conducts research and ...
On February 4, 2020, a suicide bomber killed at least five people and injured at least a dozen more, near the entrance to Marshal Fahim Military Academy, a defense university in Kabul where the country’s security officers undergo training. The ...
On February 3, 2020, violence broke out amidst protests on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Edgewood and Howard campuses. Starting on January 27, 2020, students at UKZN and a number of other South African universities have held protests demanding increased student ...
On January 31, 2020, the İstanbul 32nd Heavy Penal Court sentenced twenty students from Boğaziçi University to ten months imprisonment and fined seven more students, on charges of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization,” in retaliation for their protest against Turkish ...
On January 30, 2020, Bahraini authorities arrested historian Jassim Hussein Al-Abbas in connection with a blog that he maintains.
On January 30, 2020, a civilian open fired on a group of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) students protesting a recently enacted citizenship bill, injuring one student. Since December 2019, students at universities across the country have held protests over what is ...
On January 29, 2020, it was reported that Houthi militants kidnapped Dr. Hamid Aqlan, President of the Sana’a-based University of Science and Technology (USTY), along with one of his administrative colleagues. Rebels have reportedly took Aqlan from his home and brought ...