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Iraqi academics is again the target of attacks by insurgents in a new wave of assassinations. According to the Brussels Tribunal on Iraq, at least 453 academics have been killed since 2003. In Iran, students protested against a growing presence security force at Tehran University and Bahrain University in Pakistan students marched against the dismissal of a lecturer criticized university policy. A student was jailed for three months in Sudan for participating in anti-government demonstrations, and in the US gay and lesbian students at Christian universities are agitating for official acceptance.

Iraq: New crackdown on academic elite

Iraqi academics again the target of attacks by insurgents in a new wave of assassinations was, United Press International reported on 11 April.

A dozen academics, researchers, scientists and journalists and other professionals have been killed in recent months. It seems that they were killed by insurgents or sectarian death squads. Little known political affiliations.

Academics are increasingly concerned about the rise in violence and has publicly expressed concern. Men Jalapeno, head of the International Association of Iraqi scientists, criticized Prime Minister Nourish AL-Malice and his Shiite-dominated government for the fact that they can not protect.

  Al-MusicianshipUniversity, a leading university in Iraq, especially targeted for recent attacks on academics and students.

Mohammed Alan, dean of the medical faculty and a prominent surgeon, was killed on March 29 by a bomb that exploded under his car. Said Abdul Minim, head of research in molecular department, was killed on 3 April.

Since 2007, more than 325 students and staff maimed and killed at Al-Mustansiriya University in violent attacks.

Under rule Saddam Hussein's, the Iraqi higher education system were well regarded, despite repression the regime.

Since 2004 and the beginning of the insurgency in Iraq, the country's academics systematically targeted by death gangs, including Islamic fanatics, would eliminate the elite either by killing them or push them into exile.

Because of this climate of fear and death, several hundred academics and scientists, as well as journalists, doctors and lawyers, have fled Iraq to avoid killing.

According to the Brussels Tribunal on Iraq, at least 453 academics have been killed in Iraq since 2003.