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 February 1, 2021, military and/or police personnel used teargas to disperse peaceful student protesters as they demonstrated on the campus of the University of Abuja. Starting at 9:00 am, the students of the University of Abuja staged a peaceful protest ...
On January 30, 2021, five students were arrested in connection with an art exhibition on the campus of Bogaziči University. The exhibition included a poster displaying the Kaaba, a sacred Muslim shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, alongside LGBTQ+ pride flags, ...
On January 30, 2021, Astrakhan State University (ASU) expelled three students for participating in a January 23 protest in support of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Protests over Navalny’s arrest swept Russia in what the New York Times called the “biggest ...
On January 26, 2021, security guards clashed violently with students protesting outside the University of Central Punjab, in Lahore. Hundreds of students staged a sit-in outside the university gates to protest the university’s decision to hold exams in-person after a semester ...
On January 25, 2021, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) suspended two students for organizing a memorial event commemorating the life of a student who died after falling from a parking garage near the site of a student ...
On January 14, 2021, police used tear gas against students protesting a government proposal to increase police presence on university campuses. In 2019, when the current government came into power, it abolished a 1982 law preventing police entry to university campuses. ...
On January 7, 2021, Visva-Bharati University (VBU) suspended professor Sudipta Bhattacharyya, in apparent retaliation for expression critical of the university administration. Bhattacharyya is a professor of economics who has taught at VBU since 2001. He is also the president of the ...
On January 6, 2021, police used batons and water cannons against medical school students and recent graduates during a protest. The students and graduates protested outside the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) demanding that it reverse course in its decision to not ...
On January 5, 2021, police arrested Yadanabon University student Phone Myint Kyaw in connection with his student activism. Phone Myint Kyaw, a member of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), was arrested in Aung May That San township. Police ...
On January 5 and 6, 2021, police reportedly detained 31 seventeen students in apparent retaliation for their participation in a protest at Boğaziçi University. On January 1, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed new rectors to five universities. These included appointing Melih ...