GLOBAL: Academic lack of boundaries reports worldwide

Iran, a student activist was lashed 74 times, just hours before he was released from prison after a one-year sentence for insulting the president. Some of the Germans during the life of the Soviet Union, a historian specializing in Russia has gone on trial behind closed doors on charges of illegally revealing personal data. UAE, is a professor at the University of Sorbonne in Abu Dhabi since April were arrested on charges of insulting officials and rights groups have asked the university to support. A former vice-chancellor of the University of Famagusta in Cyprus naval base blast July 11 release of his statement about the violation of the right to cancel the conference accused the council. India, then Delhi's history curriculum in its attempt to exclude a controversial decision by the government following the outbreak of the University, criticizing the Sultan of Selangor and Malaysia under a teacher's students have protested against the suspension.

Iran: Student activists lashed insulting Ahmadinejad

Iranian student activist Penman Are was lashed 74 times, just hours after leaving Tehran Even prison, before insulting President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the Guardian, the 9th October.

Area’s wife disguised as prison guards and the prison officials administered the lashing.

Are, a Tehran University political science student, was arrested in 2009 in the aftermath of contested elections and propaganda against the state and accused of having contact with foreign media.

In March 2010 he was sentenced to a year in prison and 74 lashes for insulting the president. A sign of protest, a letter condemning the authorities' crackdown on university students politically active, Are had refused to start a letter addressed to the President of the formal greeting 'Salam'.

Student activists, moreover, was banned for life from working as a journalist, and being a member of a political party.

According to the Iranian journalist who asked to remain unnamed, political activists are usually lashed charges under vague and ambiguous. But he described President Area’s lashing out "shocking and unprecedented as" insulting.

The incident happened a week Tohidlou Somayeh, a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Tehran and a former presidential candidate Mir Hussein Mosaic campaigner after he was lashed 50 times in an attempt to humiliate her.

Russia: History on trial for violating privacy laws

Russia Mikhail Sup run, a historian specializing in the era of the Soviet Union the lives of some of the Germans, has been accused of violating privacy laws after the publication of his research. But in the city of Arkhangelsk, the inconsistencies in the ongoing trial in the north, Radio Free Europe the 18th of October.

Nadezhda Shalygina, a postgraduate student at the Pomor University in Arkhangelsk, Sup run undertook research four years ago as 'enemies of the Soviet people' 'of the army' to the Crimea and the Volga region of Russia in the north of the fate of ethnic Germans deported during World War II.

As part of the study, identified a number of deported Germans and their personal histories were investigated. After two years of research, 20% of those deported to the Arkhangelsk region have been successfully identified.

Memory book for the results of research, which was supported by the German Red Cross were published.

But family members of individuals identified following complaints deported, Sup run accused of revealing personal information illegally and charged with violating Article 137 of the Criminal Code.

His trial began earlier this month behind closed doors.

A defense lawyer in the lawsuit that the court questioned the testimony of light and sometimes contradictory.

Some of them declared that they had been contacted by federal officials asked to meet with the security services and complaints. Others, he said, is the fact that despite the evidence presented to the court a written complaint.

Defense lawyer in the case said investigators insisted Sup run revealing state secrets charge, detailed information on the activities of the Russian intelligence services documents during the investigation as his personal archives were found. But add to that the question of the prosecutor's office had denied the charge.

Some Germans' expulsion from the Second World War a third of the population is sensitive to the issue of the road and died in exile in Russia are believed to remain since its inception.

UAE: University professor urged the prosecution to condemn

UAE Nasser bin Gait, a professor at the University of the Sorbonne in Abu Dhabi, has been detained since April on charges of insulting the ruling officials, in violation of his trial and his defense despite the flaws in the process. The university needs to break his silence and his staff declined prosecution, Human Rights Watch urged on 13 October.

Bin Gait, a professor of international economic law at the Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi since 2009, was arrested on April 9, was due to finish the course, a few days earlier.

Dubai and the security forces in his family's home computers, personal video was searched and documents were confiscated.

Bloggers and online activists - - bin Gait four others charged with insulting officials in the ruling through an internet forum. Specifically accused of writing an article mentioning the crown prince.

Al-Watchband prison since his detention, his family and lawyers have been the target of a campaign of harassment by the authorities and the media.

Human rights organizations argue that bin Gait unfounded and politically motivated accusations and called for their unconditional release.

These allegations, despite his non-violent charges, the Supreme Court refused to release him. In his case, the state security procedures, the fundamental rights of the defense was put under that limit.

Recently reported that the prison staff had encouraged other prisoners to harass him, which is his solitary confinement after a confrontation with a prisoner chained to August.

Since the arrest of bin Gait, the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Sorbonne University and its Emirati partner Emirati authorities have refused to condemn.

University employees also separated itself, it "out of" identifying it as. Georges Moline, rector of the Paris-Sorbonne University, declared that the prosecution bin Gait its independent academic position and that his case could be no official comment was made.

Human Rights Watch pointed out that the University of the Sorbonne in its core values ​​of freedom of expression in a peaceful and called for the university to have publicly condemned the arrest and trial of bin Gait.

The organization has said that the reaction of liberal education at the Sorbonne or the admission of securities to ignore these values, the repression will indicate whether or not the decision by the UAE authorities.

Sorbonne and the University of Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi officially independent but share a close relationship with the administrative and financial, the French university Emirati university students receive fee income by 15%.

CYPRUS: Did the municipality bow to political pressure?

A former rector of the University of Cyprus in an open letter, accusing the town of Famagusta to its interfering with freedom of speech in the conference on July 11 in an abandoned naval base after the blast has written, the Cyprus Mail on 13 October.

Academic Stavros Seniors accused Famagusta municipality, in the cancellation of his planned speech on November 7, the group of bowing to political pressure on the council.

He also said that the municipality of his speech, he argued that he had violated his freedom of expression more than once asked him to change the subject.

The conference was supposed to be three on July 11 to discuss aspects of the naval base explosion: the causes of the incident, a 'new Cyprus' representation and how the changes could enter the country after the tragedy.

On July 11, 100 containers filled with explosives exploded in a car near the Evangels Flora is naval base in Ziti on the incident 13 people were killed and 62 injured in a serious economic and political consequences, academics and politicians from President Demetrius Christofis for including calls to resign after he was held in blast responsible.

But Famagusta Mayor Alexis Galan’s Seniors as' misleading letters.

By Galan’s, the only conference was postponed to another date, to be determined later, and Seniors economic point of view, among other things, he asked. Galan’s academic planning in response to the letter.

INDIA: Delhi University row over controversial attempt

India, Delhi University has broken the passionate debate in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, the curriculum should include an essay about whether controversial over the BBC on 18 October.

From his history courses at the university recently essay titled, "Five examples and three thoughts on translations of three hundred Ramayana’s" decided to get rid of.

This decision of the academic council of the university, which is responsible for the content of the curriculum, we have a panel of experts to keep the article in the curriculum despite the recommendation by the Supreme Court.

, Renowned scholar AK Rumanian essay, has been included in the history of the University of Delhi in 2006. They have since protested against the inclusion of the Hindu extremist group.

300 India and other Asian countries attempt to portray the Ramayana accounts, and includes versions of the Ramayana Lord Ram and Site and demon King Ravine, suggesting that they were brother and sister, who was the father of Site.

Hard-line group, the best-known version was written by the Hindu sage Valrico continue to attempt to prosecute an offense to Hindu beliefs. In the main story, Lord Ram and Site ideal consists of a married couple, Lord Ram and Ravine to rescue his wife had to fight against was the kidnapper.

Teaching in the department of history at the University of attempts to release the list, condemned the decision and the fact that the organization is more concerned about the repression of political pressure than ensuring regretted.

The history department declared Professor Sunil Kumar wrote a letter to the council that they were planning to apply for an academic essay to be restored.

MALAYSIA: Students protest suspension don

Student leaders plan in the absence of repression, Prime Minister Datum Seri Naïf Ton Raze to take complaints over the next week, on October 21, The Star reported.

Solidarity Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM) chairman Ahmad souk Raze cabinet said the group planned to hand over a memorandum to the prime minister of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) will next week is expected to visit.

Malaysia gave a press conference for university studies "should be given the space to critical thinking and discussion," he said.

SMM IIUM mosque staged a demonstration, Law Professor Dr Abdul Aziz Bari is calling for the reinstatement. Souk Ahmad claimed that four students were arrested, and next week the team would take further action if the university does not do anything.

According to the university to take pause and show cause against the Sultan of Selangor professor of controversial statements in a letter sent to an article in The Star. Supposedly, Sultan Sharafuddin Iris Shah said the raid on the church's intervention in the controversy, "unusual and inconsistent" was.

IIUM Abdul Aziz a week to explain why action should not be taken against him. Meanwhile, he was barred from campus without permission from the dean visits.

* Noemi Boot program Network for Education and Academic Rights, near the non-profit organization, to respond quickly to the repression of the global transfer of accurate information and education officer for human rights violations is one of the easier.