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 18, 2021, Hong Kong police arrested a Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) student for allegedly participating in a nonviolent campus protest. The student, whose name was not disclosed in news reports, was arrested in Hong Kong after police ...
On February 18, 2021, a Kabul University lecturer was killed in an apparently targeted car bombing. According to police officials, Mubasher Muslimyar, a lecturer of Islamic law, was killed alongside one other person when an improvised explosive device attached to his ...
On February 17, 2021, a large group of people carried out an attack on a student residence hall in apparent retaliation for a student protest. The attack left at least 25 Barisal University students injured. On February 16, a group of ...
On February 14, 2021, soldiers reportedly raided the Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU) as part of a crackdown on anti-coup protests. Protests broke out across Myanmar following a military-led coup on February 1, 2021. University students and faculty have been regular ...
On February 12, 2021, police fired rubber bullets at and beat students and others protesting in front of the Mawlamyine University campus. The protest was part of a series of demonstrations triggered by a military coup on February 1. Students have ...
On February 7, 2021, police arrested Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University student Beyza Buldağ, in connection with a Twitter account that was critical of the government’s actions targeting Boğaziçi University. The Twitter account @boundayanisma was set up in response to mounting ...
On February 5, 2021, an unidentified individual hijacked a Tufts University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) online event to display racist language. Starting in early March 2020, many higher education institutions across the US suspended in-person classes and campus activities, moving ...
On February 4, 2021, police detained a student and two others protesting outside the gates of the University of Medicine, in Mandalay. Protests broke out in Myanmar following a military coup on February 1 and the arrests of civilian government leaders, ...
On February 1, 2021, Turkish police detained 159 students, faculty, and others peacefully protesting at and around the Bogaziči University campus. Since early January, students and faculty have held frequent protests in response to a controversial rector appointment by President Recep ...
On February 1, 2021, Egyptian authorities arrested master’s student Ahmed Samir Santawy. Samir is a second-year MA student in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. His studies focus on women's rights in Egypt, in particular reproductive ...