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 November 8, 2019, unidentified individuals set fire to the headquarters of Pedro de Valdivia University in Santiago, Chile. The incident occurred in the context of nationwide protests that began on October 18, 2019, when students and activists protested a rise ...
On November 5, 2019, individuals believed to be members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling political party, attacked student and faculty demonstrators, injuring at least twenty. Since August 23, 2019, Jahangirnagar University students have demanded ...
On November 4, 2019, police fired live ammunition at students protesting unpaid student allowances at Southern Africa Nazarene University (SANU), injuring a student. Beginning in August 2019, students have held protests, seeking payment of allowances for student accommodations and books. In ...
On October 30, 2019, police reportedly fired tear gas to disperse students during a general assembly at Makerere University. The general assembly was due to discuss a June 2018 decision by Makerere’s university council to approve a plan to increase tuition ...
On October 24, 2019, Ugandan military personnel reportedly raided a residence hall at Makerere University, and beat and detained an unknown number of students in apparent retaliation for a series of protests over tuition fee increases.
On October 23, 2019, state security forces reportedly carried out a violent crackdown on students protesting a tuition hike at Makerere University. In June 2018, Makerere’s university council reportedly approved a plan to increase tuition by fifteen percent each year over ...
On October 22, 2019, Ugandan authorities reportedly arrested at least twenty students peacefully protesting a tuition hike at Makerere University. The students were released on bail later that day. In 2018, the university council reportedly approved a plan to increase tuition ...
On October 21, 2019, it was reported that Chinese authorities detained a professor of Chinese history from Japan’s Hokkaido University on suspicion of spying. Reports indicate that the professor traveled to China in early September 2019 to participate in two weeks ...
On October 20, 2019, pro National Congress Party (NCP) students reportedly attacked students of an opposing political group at Alzaiem Alazhari University. Twenty-seven students were reportedly injured. On October 20, classes resumed at Alzaiem Alazhari University for the first time in ...
On October 15, 2019, University of Malaya (UM) administrators filed a complaint with local police against a student in apparent retaliation for his protest against the university’s vice chancellor during its convocation ceremony. Wong Yan Ke is a civil engineering student ...