CHINA: Academic travel outlaw

A Chinese academic who was prominent in the United States, speaking at an academic conference has been barred from leaving China. Professor Cui Wiping, a poet and professor at the Beijing Film Academy, planned to go to Harvard University and to lecture at a conference sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies. But the director of the school told her she had been forbidden to travel.

Cui New York Times reported that he believed he was being punished by the Chinese authorities for their human rights and freedom of speech commentary.

Most recently, the social criticism of its activities by publishing on his blog, a seminar sponsored by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and Liu Xiao, who was convicted of subversion last year's sharp increase in the freedom of the writer Jailing include sending messages on the Twitter.

Professor in the past has often had problems with the authorities. During the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the police stationed outside her apartment in Beijing for several days.

The New York Times

Iran: US nuclear scientist defects

Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the US in June 2009, has been missing. ABC News Shah ram Amir, a researcher at Tehran's Male Attar University, Saudi Arabia on a Muslim pilgrimage to disappear again. Amir was found in the US, almost 10 months later, the CIA helps to inform its efforts to block Iran's nuclear program.

Iran has accused the US of abducting Amir but Washington denied any knowledge of a scientist and the CIA declined to comment on the reports. ABC News said the scientist had been extensively debriefed by US intelligence assessments about the Iranian nuclear program and drove to confirm. His defection was a wider operation, under which the US failed to persuade Iran to try to bring the result of scientists.

BBC News

INDIA: Professor grilled over links to rebels

A Delhi University professor was arrested by police on April 4, more than three hours and questioned about suspected links to the Maoists. Sunil Medial, assistant professor of Hindi at Deal Singh College, was picked up around 4pm where Maoist literature was found in his home by the police, reports the Telegraph. He left after three hours of questioning.

Medial denied Nasalizes, Maoist ideology of the far-left radical communists involved with a group of caring. The Democratic Front for the rights of India was a member of various organizations, he stressed. Delhi police are among the academics and writers in drawing a list of Maoist sympathizers.