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 21, 2018, police reportedly violently clashed with students protesting at Central University of Venezuela (UCV). On “University Student Day,” which marks the anniversary of a student-led rebellion against former military strongman Marcos Pérez Jiméneza, about four hundred students gathered ...
On November 20, it was reported that University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady, a vocal critic of China’s activities abroad, was again the victim of harassment in connection with her academic work. Dr. Brady, a professor of Chinese domestic and foreign ...
On November 16, 2018, Turkish authorities reportedly detained Turgut Tarhanlı, dean of the faculty of law at İstanbul Bilgi University, and Betul Tanbay, professor of mathematics at Boğaziçi University, along with ten others, for alleged connections to human rights activist ...
On November 15, 2018, one student was killed and others injured when police reportedly opened fire on students protesting at the University of Kinshasa. The students’ protest was in response to news that a classmate, Hyacinthe Kimbafu, had died from a ...
On November 12, 2018, the Mersin 2nd Heavy Penal Court convicted and sentenced former Mersin University professor Selim Çakmaklı to one year and three months imprisonment on a charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The charge is in apparent ...
On November 12, 2018, police reportedly opened fire on students peacefully protesting at the University of Kinshasa, killing one student. The students were holding a protest over a faculty strike at the University of Kinshasa that started on October 8. As ...
On November 8, 2018, Chinese police reportedly detained two students participating in a peaceful protest outside an Apple store in Beijing. The students were reportedly protesting Apple’s alleged use of student interns as workers in their suppliers’ factories. A group of ...
Beginning on November 9, 2018, Chinese authorities reportedly detained at least 9 recent graduates of Chinese universities in apparent retaliation for their activism supporting factory workers. In August 2018, student activists launched Jasic Workers Support Group (JWSG), a solidarity initiative with ...
On November 4, 2018, police officers reportedly arrested two activists from Zengakuren, a left-wing student group, for allegedly distributing political materials at Toyo University. The activists, Yohei Sakube and Yuichi Utsumi, were arrested as they were making their way to the ...
On November 2, 2018, authorities reportedly arrested Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a research fellow at Makerere University, on charges of “cyber harassment” and “offensive communication,” apparently in retaliation for her social media activity. If convicted, she could face up to one ...