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Uzbekistan, Uzbek female student on vacation in Germany who studies suicide four days after police interrogation. In Turkey, 22 to 28 young leftists detained for six months over allegations of terrorist links have been released after a court rejected the accusations against them. Nasser bin Gait Professor at the University of the Sorbonne in Abu Dhabi, the other four arrested eight months to sign an online petition with the pro-reform, freed after a presidential pardon. Iran, one of the imprisoned rights activist was denied leave to write a post-graduate admissions test. And Tunisia, Islamic fundamentalist groups have disrupted classes and exams at the university and targeted female professors.

UZBEKISTAN: student committed suicide after police interrogation

Uzbek Gulsumoi Abdujalilova student killed himself four days for questioning by the local authorities after the Uzbek western city of Andirons, Radio Free Europe on 6 December.

Abdujalilova, who was studying in Germany, and there she was on vacation when to call the local police and interrogated for four days in early December.

December 4th, he committed suicide by swallowing a large quantity of pills.

Yelena Urlayeva, who chairs the Uzbek Human Rights Alliance According to the NGO, Abdujalilova physically mistreated during his detention.

He also forced the opposition People's Movement of Uzbekistan (OHH), Muhammad Salish, who now lives in exile opposition leader to write a false statement.

In a suicide note, Abdujalilova wrote: "Some opposition activists tried to kill me, but it is better to kill myself if I have to take someone's life."

OHH, which according to its website expressed condolences to the family of the student, Abdujalilova I had never been part of the opposition movement.

They do not know the details of Abdujalilova called the police, and the authorities did not comment on the case.

Turkish court rejects the accusations, notes students

Twenty-two young people, mainly students, were released by a court in Ankara over allegations of links to a terrorist organization in prison after spending months, Hurried December 10th.

28 young people left the court trial opened in Ankara on December 9. At least 3,000 people, academics, activists and lawmakers in the Republican Party and the Peace and Democracy Party, gathered outside the court to support the defendants.

Twenty-two of them were later released by the court rejected the accusations against them.

The students were arrested in May in protest against the brutal repression of a demonstration in Hope days after taking part in a violent, the Black Sea, Prime Minister Recap Tanya Brogan’s visit to the city.

Students were detained for up to six months before the start of their trial.

Aged between 20 and 31, were charged with membership of the leftist terrorist group, spreading terrorist propaganda, a public employee intentionally injured, damaging public property and resisting security forces.

The prosecution made public a list of what was considered incriminating evidence. Left-wing publications, Turkey's leftist leaders of the movement back and Denis Gizmos Mahir posters, fliers university campuses, and banners, sticks and an umbrella cheaper transportation and food is included in the request.

It was learned that the case caught the attention of the public prosecution, the assumption that Halkevleri (House of the People) and Morenci Kolektifleri (Students' Communities), the call may protest, leftist organizations were banned civilian wings of the Turkish People's Liberation Party Front, a radical group of the now defunct 1970 leftist movement that drove the country.

UAE: 'Online Application' academics and activists freed

Professor Nasser bin Gait, a professor of international economic law at the Sorbonne in Abu Dhabi, and four other convicted political activists, including a prominent blogger, freed after eight months in prison, the Associated Press on November 28.

Five men were Sheik Halifax bin Bayed Al Nathan, President of the union to apologize, and the 40th anniversary of the national day of the United Arab Emirates, and the 26th of November, released one day, after two-and three-year jail sentence imposed by the court security in Abu Dhabi.

They were arrested in April and an online petition calling for political reform were charged with insulting UAE leaders, contrary to the national security and inciting people to protest the signing.

Large-scale pro-reform protests in other parts of the country it did not even take place in the region as a violent response by the authorities in the United Arab Emirates is a sign of protest or criticism.

When Gait shared his happiness with his family, but also for his country, which had "a police state" has become an embarrassment to return.

According to defense lawyer Mohammed al-Rocha, the charges against the five men remain despite the presidential pardon.

Gait said, determined to clear his name by spending eight months in prison for crimes he did not commit themselves.

Iran: Student activist denied prison leave for study

Abdolfazl Tabarzadi, an imprisoned student activist and human rights, the right to temporary release from prison has refused to take an exam, on November 28, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

Tabarzadi father, Reza Tabarzadi, spent the day with her son's right to temporary leave from prison on November 30, a graduate admissions test taken on Wednesday, pleading, but he received only negative responses from Ahvaz prosecutor.

Tabarzadi was arrested by security forces in December 2010, a civil engineering student, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by the lower court Ahvaz, but his sentence was later reduced to nine months by a court of appeal.

Two months ago, the Karoo Ahvaz Prison to begin serving his sentence.

Tabarzadi According to the father, he is not a criminal, he was the only human rights activist fighting for the rights of inmates to leave and visitation, his uncle, Heshamtollah Tabarzadi, an activist and former Secretary General of the Democratic Front of Iran, but was arrested Raja Shah Prison in Karaj.

The arrest of student activities and his uncle was to link with the opposition on this subject is shown during his detention he was interrogated.

Tabarzadi is still hoping that his son will be granted leave from prison.

TUNISIA: Damage fundamentalist campus

Since October, the university suspended for at least four groups of religiously motivated protests, repression and the violation of students' right to education, Human Rights Watch December 9th.

Islamic fundamentalist groups have caused significant disruption to academic activities, including the suspension of classes and exams, letters, and business faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Manobo, near Tunis School, the Higher Institute of Theology of Tunis, Sousse and the Higher Institute of Art and the School of Arts and Crafts in Kairouan in the humanities.

On November 28, 100 people, a group of students and non-students, included in the Manobo University campus, disrupt classes and exams.

Habit Kazdaghli, letters, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, said outside his office was threatened personally. Other campuses, intimidations and acts of violence continued, and the 6th of December Kazdaghli refused access to his office in an attempt to demonstrate that despite access.

After these events, a professor in the faculty decided to close until further notice, calling the police, and that they have not yet done.

Other incidents of teachers, especially women teachers involved in intimidation.

Said asthma Pasha, an assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts in Kairouan, accused of insulting Islam in his class and was asked publicly repented demonstrator held down.

A professor of Islamic studies at the Higher Institute of Theology of Tunis, who asked to remain unnamed, was intimidated weeks for students claiming that the teacher can not teach secular Islamic beliefs (Acid) by. Since then, the authorization to transfer to another university.

Manobo business school at the University of Radii Ben Guitar Another professor was intimidated by students objecting to their style of dress.

They demonstrate their own interpretation of Islam calling for the imposition of the life of the university campus and curriculum. Women wearing the full-face veil in the classroom are also asking for an end to the ban.

Human Rights Watch has called on the Tunisian authorities to protect freedom and individual academic violence and intimidation by fundamentalist groups on campus.

The institutions of government and the university authorities and the safety of students and teachers to prevent outsiders from disrupting academic activities and asked for cooperation.

Although it is a violation of the law, no arrests have been made by the security forces so far.

President Zane El Abiding Ben Ali after he was released in January 2011, the government removed the Tunisian police on college campuses, and now, police have only received an explicit request of the dean of the institution will be able to intervene.

* Noemi Booed 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.