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 2, 2019, violence erupted between student demonstrators, campus security, and police during a protest against safety conditions at Nelson Mandela University (NMU). Students had been raising concerns about safety on campus in response to reports of robberies and violence. ...
On August 28, 2019, violence erupted between student demonstrators, private security guards, and police during a protest on East Midlands College’s Uitenhage campus. A group of about two hundred students reportedly gathered on campus to protest a new university attendance policy ...
On August 28, 2019, police reportedly fired water cannons and launched tear gas canisters at student protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) organized a march protesting legislation being considered in Sri Lankan parliament that they claim ...
On August 27, 2019, Nangarhar University professor Massoud Nekbakht was killed and three colleagues were injured in an apparently targeted attack on their vehicle. Reports indicate that their vehicle was rigged with a magnetically attached explosive device. At the time of ...
On August 26, 2019, authorities reportedly detained Dr. Rakan Al-Safadi, a Syrian scholar of literature at Qalamoun University, and transferred him to an undisclosed location. In addition to his work as a scholar, Al-Safadi is a prominent poet and writer who ...
On August 26, 2019, it was reported that the Unirule Institute of Economics would shut down pursuant to a government order. Unirule was an independent think tank founded in 1993 by a group of economists, dedicated to the open exchange of ...
On August 25, unidentified individuals beat several student activists in a neighborhood bordering Delhi University. Members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), a student organization affiliated with the Communist Party of India, were reportedly putting up posters in the Vijay ...
On August 23, 2019, US officials denied entry to Ismail B. Ajjawi, an incoming student at Harvard University, allegedly based on his friends’ social media activity. He was later granted entry to the US on September 2, 2019. Ajjawi is a ...
On August 22, 2019, a bomb exploded in the rector’s building at the University of Guayaquil, causing damage to campus property, and leading to the evacuation of the campus by students.
On August 20, 2019, students from the University of Fort Hare’s (UFH) Alice campus clashed violently with police during a protest over denied applications for financial aid. Five students were reportedly injured.