Thursday, 10 December 2015

International: Academic freedom reports wide-reaching



In Iran, a student activist is 74 times, just hours before his hit release from prison after serving a one-year sentence for insulting the president. A Russian historian specializing in the lives of ethnic Germans during the Soviet era went on trial behind closed doors on charges of unlawful disclosure personal data. In the USE, a Sorbonne Abeu Dhabi University lecturer detained since April on charges of insulting officials and rights groups, the university requested to support him. A former University rector Cyprus of Augusta municipality of infringement of his right to freedom of expression by the cancellation of a lecture on July 11 naval base blast accused. In India, a row erupted after the Delhi University's decision to a controversial essay in its history curriculum includes, and in Malaysia students protested against the suspension of a law lecturer criticized the Sultan of Clangorous.

Iran: Student activist beaten insulting Ahmadinejad

Iranian student activist Penman Are is 74 times, just hours before his hit release from Terran's Even prison for insulting President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the Guardian reported on 9 October.

International: Academic freedom reports worldwide



In Turkey, in an ongoing operation against Kurdish political parties, two academics were arrested and charged under the Anti-Terror Law, but there are concerns about fair trial standards. In the Philippines, educators and activists fear for their lives after the brutal murder of a university vice president and given rising - seemingly politically motivated - attacks and murders. In Bahrain, expressed concern about the fairness of the trial of a professor arrested and suspended from his position, amid a wider crackdown on academic freedom. In Laos rights groups are calling for the release of political prisoners, including four student leaders remain imprisoned 12 years after protests in the country was broken. And an American climate change scientist regarded as a victory for academic freedom and science a judgment for access by a pro-industry think-tank denied to his private e-mail.

Turkey: Anti terrorist Law - Academics arrested, charged

Two academics were arrested and charged under the Anti-Terror Law, in a mass action targeting Kurdish political parties in Istanbul, International PEN reported on 2 November.

GLOBAL: Educational freedom reports worldwide



In Turkey, 57 members of the Academy of Sciences has resigned in protest against a government decision autonomy the academy will end. In Bahrain, university students are under attack by the authorities, with hundreds trying to work pro-democracy and six recently 15 years received sentences and hefty fines in a case widely criticized as unfair. Papua students in Indonesia are targeted by the authorities for describing human rights groups as general intimidation and threats. And Azerbaijani, a top scientist demoted for questioning the legality of the detention of the youth activist Baxter Hacienda, amid moves by the Azerbaijani intelligentsia.

Turkey: Mass resignation of the science academy members

Fifty-seven academics at the Turkish Academy of Sciences resigned en maze in protest against a new order to the academy's autonomy in choosing its members will end, Hurried Daily News reported on 15 November.

Turkish Academy of Sciences (tuba) was established in 1993 as an autonomous institution with independent research, finance and administration, although under the auspices of the Prime Minister. Tuba currently 140 members, including 40 honorary members, independent appointed.

International: Academic self-determination reports worldwide



In Uzbekistan, an Uzbek female student on vacation from studies in Germany committed suicide questioned after four days of police. In Turkey, 22 of 28 leftist youths detained for six months on accusations of terrorist links was released after a court rejected the accusations against them. Professor Nasser bin Gait Sorbonne University Abeu Dhabi detained along with four others for eight months for signing an online petition pro-reform, were freed after a presidential pardon. In Iran, a human rights activist imprisoned refused permission to complete a graduate admissions test. And in Tunisia, disrupting the Islamic fundamentalist groups of university classes and exams and have targeted female professors.

Uzbekistan: Student suicide after police questioning

Uzbek student Gumboil Navratilova killed herself after being questioned for four days by the local authorities in the Western Uzbek city Andiron, Radio Free Europe reported on 6 December.

Navratilova, who studied in Germany, the home was on vacation when she summoned by the local police and interrogated for four days at the beginning of December On December 4, his suicide by swallowing a large quantity of pills.

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.

EGYPT: The Their four-sided figure strength lingers on university grounds



I live in Cairo, arrived a few months before the revolution that began in September last year, and then see how repression pervades every aspect of life. Most people are familiar with the characteristics of an unfair and dictatorial regime: the police brutality, vote-rigging, media censorship and widespread corruption. But the reality is much more sinister.

Cairo repression deeply infiltrated society and I observed how deeply it affects the lives of every individual, busy learned an integral part of the lives of Egyptians to live.

Although many of my friends in Cairo's universities active and animated, they were acutely aware of their lack of freedom within the university and outside in the community, and how the two intrinsically linked.

I remember a conversation with a depressed fresh graduate, who said: ". Real change can not be made in universities to [former President Bosnia] Mubarak and his family disappeared hope not now?".

UK: Muslim Veil: Why are we not tolerant one another?



 Hurley in Lancashire, England, is a city of simmering ethnic tensions burst into violent riots between Muslims and non-Muslims in 2001. Yet Hurley College, the first in Britain to the veil or clothing that cover the face "became Ban ostensibly for security reasons. Britain itself boasted of more tolerant than other European countries like France or Belgium that the veil in schools, colleges or public buildings ban. So what is it to a Muslim student from Hurley being? Find out Human MODDING.

One reason why I study to London at the university away from the uncomfortable paranoid feeling that the majority of people in Hurley and neighboring towns made me feel moved. I spent my whole life living in Hurley and have always felt the racial segregation to be a major problem.

Then in the sixth form common room at my school in Hurley, this separation was clear - Muslims to fill one side of the room and non-Muslims the other. I ask myself: why are we not accept one another?

Banning the veil again say that a Muslim woman who wears the veil is not accepted. Why not? For the fact that her? Dress modestly need to liberate Muslim women, it should not oppress her.

As a Muslim girl myself I feel like the so-called "security" reasons for the ban on Hurley College is an antiquated excuse, and forcing someone to take off the veil is discrimination.

At least half if not more of the people in Hurley is Muslim. Therefore, one would think that Hurley authorities would be more considerate and understanding of other religions and beliefs. I wonder why Muslims do not get a say in what happens, especially when it affects them directly.

After Burley riots in 2001 I came across a young person quite confident he said hates Muslims, and the reason for his parents during the riots were injured.

I remember when the riots broke out, it was said that one of the reasons for the tension was that Muslims believed them to the same rights as the rest of the population, and the higher, better-paid work given to non- Muslims. Although I do not believe it's true, I do believe that there is still tension and other 'tactics are used to separate the rights of Muslims and non-Muslims, such as the ban on the veil.

I was 11 when I first started wearing the headscarf and perhaps too young to fully why I'm realizing. All I knew at that point that I wanted. As I got older, of course, I understand it more. But try to explain to my non-Muslim friends was difficult. They were not eager to understand and was not eager to accept.

I remember a time in high school when some of my non-Muslim friends asked me to take off my headscarf. When I asked why, they have no valid reason. "You will look better that your hair," they said, or "Other Muslims so why should you?" Or: "Your sister so why do you?"

Forcing a Muslim girl to take off her veil changes that she wants to be. I feel like excuse after excuse generate why a woman should not wear the veil. If your friend decides to wear the veil tomorrow, would you think less of her? She was the same person she always, you always knew.

Imperial College London has a system where Muslim women to show their face at the door for security, but then allowed to cover their faces again when the door.

This system will be more considerate if the security officer was female and Muslim women would feel uncomfortable, but it is something I think Burley College should consider. Especially when their policy was to force Muslim women to quit the university.

As a Muslim, I believe that nothing overwhelmed faith and religion is more important than anything else. Banning the veil is pushed to choose a Muslim woman between his faith and his upbringing. Where are her rights?

I always heard that London was more multicultural and more accepting of who you are and where you are from. It made me think university in London as I no longer wanted to push the other side of the common room.

I feel much more comfortable in London, maybe because I do not label me in Burley. It made me free to be myself. Need not be marked, the sense of individuality is liberating. So, no paranoia.

My friends now range of the different nationalities, races and religions. I do not feel forced into just friends with Muslims. From my first year university experience in London with all kinds of people, I think my confidence has grown.

Being at the Bartlett School of Architecture, we are all encouraged to be ourselves and be open to understanding other cultures and people. We embrace and share our skills and knowledge.

I feel accepted.

* Human Mohyuddin is a second year student at the University College London's Bartlett School of Architecture.

Comment:
Wearing a burke not Muslim women involved in everyday life in Britain avoided. Baroness Warsi defended the right of Muslim women choose to wear the burke.

She suggested that many Muslim women choose the veil of their own free will wear. "Why should we tell women what to wear? What it means choice. If women do not have a choice about what to wear then they oppress.

"But if a woman has a choice, and she chooses to wear whatever she chose then she suppress is she? His choice what she wants."

Critics claim that the burke alienates Muslim women from the rest of society. But Conservative Party chairman Baroness Wars said the burke not act as a barrier in itself. She added: "There are women who burke that most operating successful businesses - internet businesses, which do not really need to be there face to face, I do not believe it is for the state to which we can say and can not. wearing. Any woman who supports the burke one should wear. "

There is a social and economic pressure on Muslim women cover themselves with the hirable or neap. Wars is a member of the Cabinet Tory because she does not cover herself. Only those Muslim women with post responsibility are those who do not cover themselves. Only those Muslim women who cover themselves received no state honors. The ban on the veil or blocking the construction of minarets would alienate the Muslim community and threaten social cohesion.

Some young Muslim feminists consider the hirable and neap political symbols, is a way of rejecting Western excesses such as alcohol-abuse, casual sex and drug use. What more liberating: judged on the length of your skirt and the size of your breasts, or on your character and intelligence?

A careful reading of the Koran shows that just about everything Western feminists fought in the 1970s were available 1400 years ago Muslim women equal to men in spirituality, education and worth to be considered. When Islam offers women so much, why are Western men so obsessed with Muslim women attire?

Even former ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid derogatory remarks about the made neap, and they come from Scotland, where men wear skirts.

"Common sense" not to wear the neap because it makes social relations "more difficult"? Nonsense. If this is the case, why are cell phones, e-mail, text messaging and fax machines in daily use?

What this body up no intelligence or physical and mental abilities reduced in the course of a house, raise children, get a degree, to make money, to make an informed member of the community or their social interaction with other neighbors. The neap not make them inferior.

Why are people reluctant to associate with us so willingly and openly as with other Muslim women who cover their faces? We do not bite or any other. Is because they are afraid that we are more likely to "terrorism" because we choose to follow our religion more now? On the contrary, people who their religions now, any religion, realized that they, among others the obligation to maintain the sanctity of their religion under all circumstances and no religion teaches violence.

Women who cover their face and keep neap is as normal as anyone else. If the victims we are indeed the victims of mass propaganda and false advertising against Muslim women this breach of trust between us and the rest of the world has caused.

We are very normal, we are very human and we are as intelligent as anyone else .... the beauty and strength lies in the mind. By wearing the hirable or neap, a Muslim woman is able to confidently project her opinions and ideas without the pressure to criticism in secret or openly for their body.

Today, our society encourages women to show off their bodies and their brains show. Female models are often underweight, and the media tell us this is the way women should look like !! don’t make me laugh !!!!

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