GLOBAL: Academic lack of restrictions reports worldwide

A Guinea student in Gambia have been released after more than two months in jail or under house arrest following accusations that he planned a revolt. In the UK an Oxford academic permitted under the freedom of information laws to previously read secret data on climate change. Royal College of Surgeons Ireland came under fire for urging staff and students at its medical school in Bahrain involved in politics and for failing to take a stand against the oppression of the doctors. And in Malaysia, a South Korean student was arrested after attending a pro-democracy protest.

Gambia: Guinea exempt student

A Guinea student in Gambia have been released after more than two months in jail or under house arrest following accusations that he planned a revolt Egypt-style, all Africa reported on 5 July.

Moister Diabolic, a Guinean anthropology student at the American University in Cairo (AUX), was arrested on April 30 in Gambia where he did research for his masters thesis on transnational migration.

  Diabolic was accused by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency of threatening national security by spreading revolutionary ideas.

After his arrest, he spent a week in custody for questioning and was placed under house arrest. It was reported that Diabolic was not tortured, only due to the presence of a Guinean official. On June 28 he was arrested where he is by the authorities on terrorism charges are pending against him be taken.

According to Phillip Risk, a colleague of Diablo’s AUC, his close relationship with Egypt and found leftist literature in his confiscated possessions, led the intelligence agency to think that Diablo was planning an Egypt-style uprising against Gambian authorities to organize.

After his release, Diablo declared himself cleared of all the accusations by the Gambian intelligence service and that he is able to leave the country in the following days, would be to the Gambian police have completed a final check on his student status .