GLOBAL: Academic liberty reports universal

In Iran, has a scientific died in a bomb attack earlier very similar assassinations of those involved in controversial nuclear program in the country. In Sudan, the peaceful protest student across the country were violently suppressed by security forces. Academics and students at Tel Aviva University Israel's security services of the institution condemned for acting like a "secret police on campus" in pressure lecturers to help explore their students. And in Sari Lanka, thousands of students protesting a range of grievances evicted from their campus after a court order.

Iran: Another nuclear scientist killed in bomb attack

  Muhammadanism Ros an, a university professor and nuclear scientist, was killed in a bomb explosion in Tehran, Jeralee reported on 11 January

  Rosa, a chemistry expert who graduated from the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, was in charge of a department at Nathans uranium enrichment plant the.

He was killed on January 11 by a magnetic bomb placed by two men in his car on a motorcycle. Two others present in the car were injured men.

According to the website Sharif University Ros an was "working on a project of making polymeric membrane for separating gas".

His murder is the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iranian nuclear scientists.

On January 12, 2010 Mastoid Ali Mohammad, a Tehran University physics professor was killed in a similar bomb attack. In November 2010 two other scientists were targeted by bomb attacks, which killed and injured a another.

More recently, in July 2011, was student Dario’s Rezaeinejad killed by gunmen on motorcycle. Conflicting reports later discussed his alleged involvement in Iran's nuclear program.

Iranian authorities have accused Israel of responsibility for Rotan’s assassination, presumably in an attempt to destabilize the country before March presidential elections and to derail its nuclear program.

But Iranian President Mohammad Reza Radii Vice declared on state television that the attack "will not stop Iran's nuclear program."

Diplomatic tensions intensified between the US, Israel and Iran over Iran's controversial nuclear program. Despite claims that the program developed only for civilian and peaceful purposes, the United States and Israel accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons technology.

SUDAN: Crackdown on protests student

Recent student protests over Sudan was brutally suppressed by the Sudanese authorities, Human Rights Watch reported 3 January

Since mid-December, security forces violently suppressed protests student in Khartoum, Port Sudan, River Nile State, Gadara and Kassel, Sudan to the east.

The focus of the protest include the alleged rigging of political student union elections, and the killings by state forces of Darfur rebel leader Khalid Ibrahim Dr. Students also protested in support of the Manager, a community displaced by the construction of a dam on Nile States.

On December 22, students peacefully demonstrated in Khartoum University cruel spread with batons and tear gas by police and security forces, leaving many students injured and another arrested. Later that day, police forces raided a student dormitory, the arrest of 16 students for the night.

And three days later, security forces re-entered the campus to put a peaceful-spread in the condemnation of violence.

Despite the closure of the university on December 29 and the arrest of three student leaders, students held meeting.

In addition, a number of activists and opposition members have been arrested in the past few weeks, including Mohammed Hassan Alum Bosh, a recent university graduate and active member of the opposition Baath party. He was arrested on December 26 in an undisclosed location, presumably in connection with a speech he gave last month at Khartoum University criticized the ruling party, the National Congress Party.

Human Rights Watch has called on to respect the Sudanese authorities and security forces to the right students' peaceful protest and detained activists and political prisoners immediately release. The organization is also urging Sudanese security forces to stop violence to disperse a peaceful protest student.

The organization called the use of violence and arrests in these cases "both illegal and counterproductive" and called on the Sudanese authorities to promote dialogue as a way to work out differences.

ISRAEL: University security services spied on students

After a controversial letter sent by his security service to lecturers, the University of Tel Aviv has been accused of spying on his student activists in widespread criticism from academics and students, Harts reported on 22 December.

Lecturers in history, philosophy and literature departments at the university a letter of security service asked them to provide details - including names, student ID and phone numbers - students seen on a security video.

The students are seen urging other students to participate in their "illegal" activities, which in fact student debate groups were organized on campus for students' free time.

The letter was widely condemned by lecturers and students.

Professor Eli Friedlander, head of the department philosophy, wrote: "I strongly protest outrageous question the security department head in the mail, there is no place for a secret police on campus .."

Nimrod Flash Berg, a third-year history and philosophy student in the video, explaining that students are only for the purpose of "social and political injustice" to fight and expressed regret at suppression of the university's socio-political activity on campus .

Students reported I received letters warning them of disciplinary actions taken for any public activity without authorization.

And they accused the University of spying on them through the group's Face book page.

In response to accusations, university officials said that public activities are allowed "as long as it is legal and by the university authorities."

Sri Lanka: Protest students evicted from campus

A few thousand students were expelled protest on the campus of Sri Jayewardenepura University after a court order sought their expulsion, the BBC reported on 9 Jan.

The arrest of student leaders last year and their ongoing trials did not stop students at the university of protest days against the government before he evicted after a court order.

Students accused the authorities of interfering in their lives, including university officials' alleged request of virginity tests for some female students.

But their main beef is with the purpose of the government's private institutions, which will, according to students, ending their right to free open higher education.

And protests around the question of the government's all universities to appoint a security firm from the department of defense.

Sanity Premeds, a senior leader of the opposition United National Party recently warned of the collapse of the education the country's system, accused the police and the army of using violence and threats against students.

Rejected allegations of violence against demonstrators, the government student union leaders accused of "ragging" or "victimize" new students.

The bombing of a monument to the dead student leaders in the first week of January further stirred tension after students accused soldiers of being responsible for the attack. The army later rejected the accusation.

The recent protests student takes place in a wider context of dissatisfaction towards the education system in the country, especially given the official bungling in the mark of the Sri Lanka-school examinations.

* Noemi Bout is a program officer at the Network for Education and Academic Rights hand, a non-profit organization that facilitates the rapid global transfer of accurate information in response to violations of academic freedom and human rights in education.