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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On April 15, 2023, police prevented a planned protest march by the Angolan Students Movement (MEA) and arrested approximately five of the protesters. MEA objected to an ongoing strike by the National Union of Higher Education Teachers (SINPES), which had resulted ...
On March 28, 2023, Taliban intelligence agents arrested Sakhidad Sangin, a professor at Badakhshan University, in apparent connection to his opposition to the Taliban’s educational policies concerning women and girls. Taliban intelligence agents reportedly arrested Sangin, a professor of English literature, ...
On March 28, 2023, it was reported that University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne professor Carlos Moreno was the subject of harassment and death threats in response to his work on a concept called the “15-minute city.” In 2015, Moreno formed the ...
On March 10, 2023, University of Delhi (DU) officials debarred PhD candidate Lokesh Chugh, national secretary of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) for one year, in connection with the screening of a banned BBC documentary on Prime Minister ...
Around March 8, 2023, the Taliban reportedly arrested Rasul Abdi Parsi, a scholar of Islamic law and former lecturer at Herat University, allegedly for social media posts criticizing the Taliban. The circumstances around Parsi’s arrest are not publicly available. Taliban authorities ...
On March 8, 2023, officials at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics suspended Chen Saibin, a lecturer in the university’s School of Economics and Management, for remarks that he allegedly made during lectures. The university’s Communist Party committee announced his ...
On March 7, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities announced the seizure of the Universidad Juan Pablo II and the Universidad Cristiana Autonoma de Nicaragua, both of which are affiliated with the Catholic church. The Nicaraguan government claimed that the reason for the seizure ...
On February 22, 2023, a group of at least eight hooded individuals attacked students holding an informational meeting on sexual orientation at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). The student union FETEPAK and ACCEPT-LGBTI Cyprus held a Rainbow Meeting on sexual orientation ...
On February 22, 2023, members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling party, the Awami League, assaulted around 30 students at a Rajshahi College hostel for not participating in a BCL event. On the evening of February ...
On February 17, 2023, police detained 22 students participating in a demonstration at Dokuz Eylul University over the government’s decision to make university education remote and vacate all state-run university dormitories to accommodate earthquake victims. On February 6, 2023, an earthquake ...