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 March 19, 2019, police reportedly fired tear gas and water cannons at students during a peaceful protest in front of the University Grants Commission, in Colombo. The Inter-University Students Federation and the Sabaragamuwa University Student Union organized the protest over ...
On Saturday, March 15, 2019, six students from the Rajiv Ghandi National Law University were reportedly suspended after publicly demanding improvements in the quality of their student hostel’s food services. The students had staged the protest on Friday, March 14. ...
On March 7, 2019, Indonesian police arrested Robertus Robet, a State University of Jakarta (UNJ) sociology professor, in apparent retaliation for expression critical of Indonesia’s government. On March 6, a video surfaced online of Robet, who is also a human rights ...
On March 7, 2019, Sudanese authorities reportedly used violent force against students participating in a peaceful vigil and protest on the campus of the National University in Khartoum.
On March 1, 2019, police reportedly surrounded and fired rubber bullets outside a peaceful student protest at Central American University (UCA). Starting in April 2018, students and other civil society groups across Nicaragua led demonstrations protesting austerity measures, demanding democratic reforms, ...
On February 27, 2019, the İstanbul 37th Heavy Penal Court sentenced two academics to one year and three months imprisonment on the charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The charges are in apparent retaliation for the scholars’ endorsement of ...
On February 26, 2019, Turkish courts sentenced four academics to one year and three months imprisonment and one academic to one year, ten months, and fifteen days imprisonment on the charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The charges are ...
On February 24, 2019, Sudanese authorities entered the campus of University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST) and reportedly used violence against non-violent student protesters. Since December 19, 2018, protesters in Khartoum and throughout Sudan have been demonstrating over food shortages ...
On February 21, 2019, the 33rd Heavy Penal Court sentenced thirteen academics to one year, ten months, and five days imprisonment each, and another fourteen academics to two years and three months imprisonment each, all on charges of “propagandizing for ...
On February 18, 2019, police violently clashed with student protesters at Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT). The protest was part of a series of demonstrations at universities across South Africa that began in early February. Protesters have raised a number of ...