Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review – December 3-9, 2011

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Kazakh University Students To Sue Over Hijab Ban
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 12/9

Russian Case Against Researcher Of Soviet Germans Closed
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 12/8

Postcards For Jailed Dissidents
Xin Yu, Radio Free Asia, 12/8

Over the Line
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 12/8

Questions raised on Arab education
Iman Sherif, Gulf News, 12/8

Texas Argues Against Supreme Court Review of Its Use of Race in Admissions
Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/8

Petition Calls on Baylor U.’s President to Stop ‘Persecution’ of Jewish-Studies Professor
Brenda Medina, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/6

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Vote backs Duke’s aims in China
Jane Stancill, Charlotte Observer, 12/6

Politicization of Study Abroad
Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, 12/5

China eases grip on blind Chinese activist: sources
Chris Buckley and Sui-Lee Wee, Reuters, 12/5

VENEZUELA: Autonomous universities’ funds stripped
Pacifica Goddard, University World News, 12/4

Beware the Dragon
Peter Conn, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/4

MALAWI: Commission ordered to cease inquiry
University World News, 12/4

In New Book From Dissident, a Warning on China
Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The New York Times, 11/30