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 September 20, 2021, police reportedly arrested nine students during a protest over a lack of affordable student housing. Starting on September 19, students from various universities across the country began camping out and sleeping in parks or in the streets ...
On August 31, 2021, Central Darfur State Security forces shot live ammunition at University of Zalingei (UZ) students participating in a protest in front of the former United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) site, killing one student and injuring ...
On August 29, 2021, the Taliban’s Higher Education Minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, announced that classes at government and private universities would be divided by gender. The Taliban took over as de facto state authorities in Afghanistan on August 15, as US ...
On August 28, 2021, police forcibly removed students sleeping in tents during a sit-in protest near Casa Aguayo, a state government building. On August 27, about twenty members of the Education for all Student Front (FEET) started a sit-in to call ...
On August 26, authorities detained Fang Ran, a PhD candidate in the sociology department of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and accused him of incitement to subvert state power. Fang researches labor movement empowerment in mainland China, according to his ...
On August 26, 2021, alleged members of the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT), the student wing of the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami, reportedly attacked members of the Progressive Students Collective (PSC) at Punjab University. PSC members organized a “study circle” about the Taliban’s ...
On August 24 2021, Esteban Mosquera, a student-activist and a student-journalist from the University of Cauca, was shot and killed. Mosquera, a well-known activist, was previously the victim of violent clashes with police during a 2018 protest. As an activist and ...
On August 23, 2021, Turkish police briefly detained eight Boğaziçi University (BU) students peacefully protesting against the appointment of a new rector to the university. Beginning in January 2021, students and faculty across Turkey held protests in response to a controversial ...
On August 21, 2021, the Taliban issued an order banning the co-education of males and females in Herat province’s government and private universities. The Taliban took over as de facto state authorities in Afghanistan on August 15, as US and other ...
On August 21, 2021, military police reportedly used force to prevent higher education and high school students from protesting a visit by the Minister of Education to the city of Odessa. The National Union of Students (UNE), National Association of Graduate ...