SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, May 28-June, 2011

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Iraq: Protest Organizers Beaten, Detained
Human Rights Watch, 6/2

Sri Lanka’s army: In bigger barracks
The Economist, 6/2

Charge Against Professor Raises Questions About Academic Freedom in Thailand
Newley Purnell, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/1

Bahrain’s ‘progressive’ influence
Ali M. Latifi, Al Jazeera, 6/1


Return to Cuba
Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, 6/1

Malawian professors fight for academic freedom
Michelle Dobrovolny, Radio Netherlands, 5/31

Asylum seekers barred from university
Harriet Swain, The Guardian, 5/31
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In Petition, NYU Faculty Urge Their Institution to Condemn Arrests in Emirates
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/31

CHINA: Access to overseas research disrupted
Yojana Sharma, University World News, 5/29

AFRICA: Terrorist threat hampers research in Sahel
Yojana Sharma, University World News, 5/29

CHINA: Setback for reforms at new university
Linda Yeung, University World News, 5/29

The UN’s painful silence on Syria
Radwan Ziadeh, New York Daily News, 5/27

Scientists face trial over earthquake deaths
Nicola Nosengo, Nature, 5/26

EHU supports those recently convicted
European Humanities University, 5/25