Academic Freedom Media Review – August 6-12, 2011

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TOGO: Government yields to student pressure
Tunde Fatunde, University World News, 8/12
Conditions of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei’s Detention Emerge
Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, 8/12
Ccasu Says not yet contacted by Commission
Frank Namangale, The Nation, 8/12
AAUP Says U. of Virginia Is Giving Group Too Much Access to Climate Researchers’ Documents
Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/11

Burmese students get long-term benefits on a ‘bamboo campus’
Sarah Cunnane, Times Higher Education, 8/11
China Releases Dissident Blogger, With Conditions
Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, 8/10
China Banning U.S. Professors Elicits Silence From Colleges Employing Them
Daniel Golden and Oliver Staley, Bloomberg, 8/10
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Committee to Protect Journalists, 8/10
Vietnam jails dissident blogger Pham Minh Hoang
BBC, 8/10http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14472932
Chile police clash with protesters during student march
BBC, 8/10http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14459281
University of Swaziland closed by cash crisis
BBC, 8/9
China’s Confucius Institutes in Canada Generate Controversy
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/9
Freedom at a Price
Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher Ed, 8/9
Baha’is In Iran ‘Summoned’ To Intelligence Ministry
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 8/9
Bahrain: EI demands release of detained teachers
Education International, 8/9
Package bomb explodes, injures 2 professors at university campus in suburb of Mexico City
Washington Post, 8/8