Thursday, 10 December 2015

International: Academic freedom reports worldwide



An Iranian student activist and prisoner of conscience remain in solitary confinement after 37 days in jail with interrogation completed. Charges against a Colombian academic arrested two yeas ago accused ties with leftist guerrillas, were dropped and he was released. A student pilot in Iran jailed for a year on Face book activities, including interviews with international media and the release of political activity. A constitutional law scholar in China went missing, believed arrested in connection with a high number of independent candidates running in local elections.

Iran: Student activist remains in solitary confinement

Ashcan Arabian, an Iranian student activist and prisoner of conscience, remain in solitary confinement, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported on 13 June.

Arabian, a student activist and political activist himself to the preservation on May 1 for a six-month prison sentence in Abdul prison, but was placed in solitary confinement. After 37 days, questioning completed, he still isolated. No reasons were given for the delay.

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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.

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In Iran, the jail pro-democracy activist Abdul Moment student refused medical leave despite serious and worsening health problems. An Iranian graduate student at an American university, in jail for five months in Tehran allegedly plotting conspiracy, asked for a chance to defend himself in a fair trial. In Saudi Arabia prominent scholar Suffuse AL-Ahmad was arrested for criticizing the lack of judicial process the authorities' security detainees. Malaysian students knew support in 25 cities around the world free and fair elections in the country, and in Zimbabwe treason charges against six activists were downgraded to inciting public violence.

Iran jailed student activist refused medical leave

  Abdul Moment, an Iranian student activist imprisoned since 2009, refused medical leave despite grave health problems, Radio Free Europe reported on 12 July.

Moment, who is serving a nearly five-year prison sentence in Even prison in Tehran, is spokesman for Iran's largest reform student organization, the Office for the promotion of unity, or order in e-Talkie-e-Vanda. He was named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

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Iran former University Chancellor Mohammad Malachi, charged an "enemy of God", the court heard his case unlawfully accused and theological scholar Ahmad Gable is again locked to a 20-month sentence to serve. In Tajikistan, the authorities of criminal cases against 22 students who returned from abroad, believe they discourage contact extremist Islamic groups. US academics a book about China's Nanjing region and banned by the authorities from entering China, expressed his shock at the lack of support from their universities. And in Burkina Faso, sent three police officers to prison for their involvement in the death of a student.

Iran is an enemy of God's academic declared the court illegal

Mohammad Malachi, former chancellor of Tehran University who was charged as an "enemy of God", accusing the hearing his case - part of Terran's Revolutionary Court - illegal, Radio Free Europe reported on 4 of August.

Mameluke, the first chancellor appointed Tehran University after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and a pro-democracy activist, was called in late July to the Revolutionary Court.

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Chinese constitutional scholar and activist Tao Life was liberated, but suffering from multiple injuries after nearly a month in detention. In Iran, religious scholar Ahmad Gable suffer declining health in Faisalabad prison, where he was a sentence insulting supreme leader in the country. Ashcan Arabian, a student activist jailed in northern Iran, has started a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention and confusion surrounding his case. The family of Freezable Soudbakhsh, a professor at Tehran University and a medical doctor who was killed by unknown gunmen in September 2010, alleged that his murder was linked to his work with the rape and torture victims.

CHINA: Science free of secret detention

  Tao Life, a constitutional scholar and activist in the province Hubie in central China, were freed in complex circumstances and suffering from multiple injuries after nearly a month in secret detention, Radio Free Asia reported on 5 September.

  Taoist allowed home on 4 September. The circumstances and date of his release remain unknown, but it appears that he was in hospital under a false name for a gallbladder disease to go home.

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In Chad detained two students for possession of prepare a pro-reform flyers to go on trial. Iran jail prominent student activist Maid Awakening permanently banned from studying at any university, and a doctoral student who campaigned for the candidate opposition in the 2009 election were arrested and subjected to 50 lashes. International Turk men students have been prevented by migration officials their country's return to universities in neighboring Tajikistan and in danger of being suspended. And in Nigeria, the students accused the authorities of failing to guarantee their safety after Islamic extremist group Book Harem threatened bomb attacks on universities.

CHAD: Students face trial on pro-reform propaganda

Two Chadian students held by Chadian authorities for four months allegedly planned pro-democracy protests in the country are facing their trial this month, Amnesty International reported on 12 September.

  Bib masculine Alexis and Redoubtably Newton was arrested by security forces May at a bus stop in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, for allegedly carrying leaflets calling for peaceful protests against President Iris Debby rule It no’s.

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In Syria, a nuclear physicist who is shot in the head is the latest victim of a series of murders targeting scientists in the city of Oms. Iranian Omit Kookaburra, Texas University doctoral student arrested in Terran's Even prison on espionage charges, on trial last week. And in China, the authorities of the class of a prominent Uighur professor at the University Minorities Beijing, and 20 Uighur professors were dismissed from a teaching college canceled in the northwestern region of Xiaoping for failing fluent in Mandarin.

Syria: nuclear scientist killed in Oms

Skein Abdel Khalid, a nuclear physics professor based in Oms in Syria, killed outside his home. His death is the latest in a series of murders targeting scientists in the city, the BBC reported on 28 September.

The academic was shot in the head outside his home in the city of Oms, which has become a central point of suppressing the regime.

The government news agency, Sana, declared the death of the nuclear scientist to be linked to a terrorist group, while another report claims that he was killed in a revenge attack.

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