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After weeks of violence in Burkina Faso, where at least six students have died, the government closed all universities until further notice. The Yemeni army injured 98 students during an attempt to stop protests on campuses. In Sudan, 100 students and youths arrested since January and very severe abuse and torture reported. An Iranian lecturer in history was dismissed after publishing critical articles, and the Iranian Ministry of Education has new restrictions announced on students abroad. In Malawi, lecturers strike against interference in academic freedom defied a presidential order to return to work.

Burkina Faso: Universities closed after protests student

After weeks of violence and a huge demonstration, the government closed all universities across Burkina Faso until further notice, the Washington Post reported on 14 March.

At least six students have died in clashes with police over the past month. Damage to public offices in the northern city of Ouahigouya and cuts to social services for students were also reported.

The government closed universities in response to student protests in connection with the death of Justin Bongo, a student who died on February 20 while in police custody in Ouagadougou, west of the capital Ouagadougou.

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Members of a student group in South Korea was arrested and charged with violating national security by openly supporting North Korea. It has created a stir in the US on a request by the Republican Party for copies of e-mail from the history professor William Cronin after he wrote articles critical of the party in Wisconsin. Peking University has announced its intention to students, including those with a radical thoughts "and" eccentric lifestyles View, and Iran nuclear scientist Shah ram Amur had been arrested and charged with treason. In Sudan's Darfur region, police killed a student protest and wounded several others.

South Korea: Student arrested, charged under the National Security Act

The student academic group Capitalism Research Society, is being investigated by the Korean National Police Agency (KN PA) and its president was arrested with other members of the group on national security charges, the Forehand reported on 24 March.

The arrested president of the association, known as Chloe, is charged with violating the National Security Act.

According to police, Chloe and his group have openly supported the 'enemy', North Korea. They are accused of the New Generation Young Communists' Red Flag with the drafting of a pro-North Korea meeting in 2006. They are also following action guidelines supporting the enemy on an Alternative Economy Camp in January 2008. The group more than 30 pro-North Korea writings posted on the Internet.

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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.

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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.

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A few hundred ethnic Uzbek students from Kyrgyzstan, who is studying in Rhea in Russia, has been plagued by the authorities. Members of the Iranian student Omit Kookaburra, who is studying for a PhD in physics at the University of Texas, is worried that he might jailed during the visit to Iran during the Christmas holidays. In Syria, a student and other detainees were tortured and beaten by security forces in the coastal town of Barnes. UK Freedom of Information laws allegedly misused to harass and intimidate climate scientists. And Swaziland student leader Maxwell Lamina is held by the authorities since 11 April and a campaign was launched to support his case.

Russia: Uzbek students face problems of Kyrgyzstan

A few hundred ethnic Uzbek students from southern Kyrgyzstan, graduated in Rhea in Russia, is facing problems with the authorities, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, reported on 12 May.

The ethnic Uzbek students - 250 boys and 17 girls - from the southern regions of Os and Urgent Kyrgyzstan arrived last September in Rhea to study at an agricultural college. They encountered problems with the authorities since the beginning of the academic year.

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A new rule makes it more difficult entered for asylum seekers in Britain university, by classifying them as foreign rather than home students. In Egypt, security guards violently dispersed students protesting outside the Ministry of Higher Education in Cairo, and in Bahrain 20-year-old poet and student Ayah AL-Armenia facing prison for reading a poem critical of the regime during a pro-democracy demonstration. Six Italian seismologists and a government official in face trial over deaths linked to the earthquake that destroyed Aquila in April 2009.

UK: New rules barring asylum seekers to go to university

The British government has introduced a new rule that makes it harder for asylum seekers university in the UK to introduce, the Guardian reported on 31 May. Since February, asylum seekers who were granted discretionary leave to remain in the UK while waiting for refugee status and who want to go to university, is regarded as overseas students.

This rule targets mainly young asylum seekers who come unaccompanied in the country, since it implies that they have to pay the higher price and are not eligible for loans and grants or and had no family to support them. Previously, asylum seekers without refugee status are considered the house a student and pay the house fees.

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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.