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 July 7, 2019, authorities in Yangon, Myanmar, reportedly detained and prosecuted eight students for participating in a peaceful march commemorating the 1962 Yangon University protests.
On July 1, 2019, the İstanbul 32nd Heavy Penal Court sentenced a research assistant from İstanbul Kültür University, and two lecturers from İstanbul Okan University and Işık University to fifteen months imprisonment on a charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.”
On June 30, 2019, authorities arrested four students from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, apparently to prevent them from engaging in non-violent expressive activity at the university’s graduation ceremony. Authorities released the students later that night.
On June 28, 2019, police reportedly detained at least twenty students during a demonstration at Allahabad University (AU) protesting a decision by the university to reform student government on campus. On June 24, AU’s Academic Council voted to replace the student ...
On June 27, 2019, paramilitary forces reportedly beat, fired tear gas at, and detained dozens of students from East Nile University College during a peaceful protest. Protests had been ongoing throughout Sudan since December 19, 2018, when demonstrators — frequently led ...
On June 27, 2019, violence erupted at the National University of Colombia’s Medellin campus during a demonstration against recent assassinations of social activists in Colombia.
On June 24, 2019, authorities fired live ammunition at students at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) during a campus protest, injuring at least five. Hundreds of UNAH students had gathered on campus to demand the resignation of President Juan ...
On June 18, 2019, the Ghana Police Service arrested Professor Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara, a Nigerian visiting lecturer at the University of Education Winneba (UEW), for comments he made at a meeting of Nigerians in Accra that were captured (allegedly without ...
On June 14, 2019, St. Petersburg State University (SPBU) administrators expelled Lukas Latz, a visiting graduate student, in apparent retaliation for his academic activity and ordered him to leave the country.
On June 13, 2019, the İstanbul 27th Heavy Penal Court convicted and sentenced a Boğaziçi University PhD candidate and an İstanbul Bilgi University research assistant to 15 months imprisonment and a Boğaziçi University scholar to two years and six months ...