Crackdown On Academic Freedoms Endangers Scholars & Students
Vrijendra | 19 December 2024 | The Free Press Journal
My previous column summarized the 2024 Free to Think report, which highlighted the worsening plight of scholars worldwide. In several countries, state and private security forces have violently suppressed student protests over education, politics, and societal issues.
In Ethiopia, police beat students protesting a university’s refusal to offer additional courses disrupted by conflict. Sri Lankan students protesting the approval of private medical universities faced tear gas and water cannons. In Mauritania, police attacked students demanding better housing, transportation, and fairer scholarship policies…