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CASEWORK -- the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee
When teachers, researchers and students are harassed or imprisoned for exercising their rights of
free expression, free association or inquiry, when their work or research is censored, when access
to educational institutions is restricted on discriminatory grounds, or when universities and
schools are closed for political reasons, the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee
responds by publicizing the abuses in the media and in the academic community, sending protest
letters to appropriate government officials, and uniting concerned organizations in coordinated
campaigns for effective international action.
Since May 1997, interventions by the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee have
included the following (interventions are listed in reverse chronological order):
| Egypt (8/3/00) |
Condemned Egypt's closure of the internationally renowned Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and detention of several of the Center's researchers, including Prof. Saad El-Din Ibrahim. |
| Sudan (11/24/99) |
Called on Sudanese President al Bashir to ensure an impartial and thorough investigation into a violent attack on the daughter of Sudanese academic Dr. Farouq M. Kadouda. |
| Kuwait (10/13/99) |
Called for the immediate release of imprisoned Kuwaiti academic Dr. Ahmad al-Baghdadi. |
| Jordan (10/8/99) |
Called on Jordan University president Dr. Walid Ma'ani to reinstate as director of the university's Centre for Strategic Studies Dr. Mustafa Hamarneh who was ousted in July as a direct result of political pressure from Jordan's prime minister, Abdur-Ra'uf Rawabdeh, and the chief of the General Intelligence Directorate, Samih al-Battikhi. |
| Iran (9/7/99) |
Called on the new head of the Iranian judiciary to immediately review the arrest and conviction of Mohsen Kadivar. |
| India (4/9/99) |
Urged the Indian government to launch an investigation into reports of politically motivated censorship at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute, a government-funded Asian studies center in Calcutta. |
| Malaysia (3/ 2/99) |
Called on the Malaysian government to launch an independent investigation into the dismissal of Professor Chandra Muzaffar, a prominent supporter of embattled opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, from the country's leading public university. |
| Serbia (12/ 21/98) |
Condemned the university administration's order which, as a part of a concerted effort by President Slobodan Milosevic to stifle free expression and academic freedom, prevented students, professors, and researchers throughout Serbia from accessing a website from OpenNet, the Internet branch of Belgrade's independent Radio B92. |
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CASEWORK -- the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee Archive (August 1998 - May 1997)
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