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The Chinese authorities have three Tibetan monks, including a student arrested in Beijing after a self-immolation protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, and an inter-college debate on the 1911 revolution prohibited. In Iran, a lawyer and human rights law professor dismissed at Aflame University in Tehran Database, and two student activists were expelled from Baku State University in Azerbaijan. Student anti-government protests took place in Damascus and Aleppo University in Syria.

CHINA: Tibetan monks arrested, including a student

The Chinese authorities have three Tibetan monks, including a student, in Beijing after a self-immolation protests arrested by the Chinese government in Tibet, Radio Free Asia reported on 3 April.

In the wake of protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, when young monk Lob sang Huntsmen self-destroyed and killed on March 17, has intensified the Chinese authorities and widened their crackdown on Tibetan monks. Protesters have called for a free Tibet and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Lob sang Startup, a student at Beijing University Nationality, and two other monks, Lob sang Chapel Lob sang Bangor and was arrested. The reason and the location of their detention remain unknown.

The Chinese authorities have control over the Nab Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sicilian province increased, the coverage of the events even more difficult than usual. They imposed new restrictions on the Karta monastery in Nab Prefecture the where both Phuntsog and Stupak come, including broader control over the movements of the monks.

The Chinese authorities have also arrested dozens of Tibetans, including members of Phuntsog's family, without the reasons for the arrests.

According to Steering, a monk affiliated with Karta Monastery in Dharamsala in India, the Chinese authorities are carrying out re-education programs Tibetans monks. It was reported that Karta Monastery and Gabi prefecture witnessed frequent repression by the Chinese authorities, especially since unrest in 2008.

CHINA: Inter-university debates banned by Beijing authorities

Chinese authorities in Beijing has banned inter-college debate on the 1911 revolution due to start on 9 April, the Sunday Morning Post reported on 10 April.

The Committee of the Communist Youth League Beijing ordered the organizers of the inter-university debate, of the Beijing Institute of Technology, the opportunity to cancel the day before it was due to start. According to Zhang Ming, a politics professor at Rennin University and a planned judge in the competition, students were angry and disappointed by the last minute ban.

The competition is held since 2002, attracting 16 universities, including the prominent Peking University, Rennin University and Tianjin University. The debates focused on the 1911 revolution and the political philosophy developed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, on "the three principles of the People - nationalism, democracy and livelihood". Students are encouraged to discuss his political legacy, as reflected in modern China.