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 December 6, 2018, the İstanbul 28th Heavy Penal Court sentenced İstanbul Bilgi University professor Gülhan Balsoy to one year and three months imprisonment on a charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The charge is in apparent retaliation for ...
On December 4, 2018, police reportedly fired tear gas and used water cannons against students participating in a protest march in Colombo. The protest was organized by the Inter University Students’ Federation and began at the University of the Visual and ...
On December 4, 2018, the İstanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court sentenced İstanbul Bilim University (İBU) professor S.B. to one year, six months, and 22 days imprisonment and the İstanbul 28th Heavy Penal Court sentenced Mimar Sinan University research assistant Yonca ...
On December 1, 2018, Iranian authorities reportedly arrested Dr. Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi, a research fellow and demography expert from the University of Melbourne's School of Population and Global Health, and Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, a professor of demography at the University ...
In late November 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) reportedly arrested Askar Yunus, a prominent historian, on undisclosed charges. Yunus, a member of the Kyrgyz ethnic community, is a historian at the Academy of Social Sciences of Xinjiang ...
On November 30, 2018, the Istanbul 25th Heavy Penal Court sentenced Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts (MSGSÜ) research assistant Onur Baysal to one year and three months imprisonment on charges of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The charge is ...
On November 28, 2018 Chilean national police reportedly used force against a group of law students from the University of Valparaíso, as they engaged in a nonviolent protest outside the university's Faculty of Law building. One student was injured in ...
On November 28, 2018, the Istanbul 37th Heavy Penal Court sentenced former Istanbul University professor Sinan Yıldırmaz to one year and three months imprisonment on a charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The charge is in apparent retaliation for ...
On November 28, 2018, Elizabeth Midlarsky, a professor of psychology and education and Holocaust scholar at Columbia University's Teacher's College, found her office vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. Midlarsky, who is Jewish, has done significant research on psychological aspects of the Holocaust, ...
On November 22, 2018, students violently clashed at Assosa University reportedly over ethnic tensions. As a result of the violence, three students were killed and 34 were injured. It is unclear what exactly sparked the clashes; however tensions between Ethiopia’s Oromo ...