SAR Academic Freedom Media Review – October 1-7, 2011

The following is the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review, re-published here regularly, as received. For more information on SAR, visit their site.
The Scholars at Risk media review seeks to raise awareness about academic freedom issues in the news. Subscription information and archived media reviews are available here. The views and opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily those of Scholars at Risk.
Assuring Civility or Curbing Criticism?
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 10/7
One year on: Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo still in jail
Michael Bristow, BBC News, 10/6
Chen Campaigners Detained
Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, 10/6
Scholars at Risk calls for letters on behalf of Mr. Yassin Ziadeh of Syria
Scholars at Risk, 10/6
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Academic Freedom Media Review – August 13 -19 2011

The Scholars at Risk media review seeks to raise awareness about academic freedom issues in the news. Subscription information and archived media reviews are available here. The views and opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily those of Scholars at Risk.

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Professor’s Memo Blasting Dept. Chair Was Protected Speech, California Court Holds /
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/18
Italian Embassy Revokes Belarusian University Rector’s Visa
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 8/18
The Kampala declaration on intellectual freedom
Ndala Machika, The Nation, 8/17
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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
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Academic Freedom Media Review-July 2 – July 8, 2011

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From where I sit – Digging deep to survive terrorism
Ruth Young, Times Higher Education, 7/7
Oral History, Unprotected
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 7/5
Throwing Out a State Vote
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 7/5
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SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, June 25 – July 1, 2011

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MALAWI: Closed campuses set to open
University World News, 7/1
Oxford academic wins right to read UEA climate data
Fred Pearce, The Guardian, 7/1
Sowing seeds of freedom in the ‘Arab Spring’
Paul Jump, Times Higher Education, 6/30
There’s no good reason for this inequality
Liz Schafer, Times Higher Education, 6/30
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Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review, June 4 – 10, 2011

Scholars at Risk would like to draw attention to the killing of Dr. Maksud I. Sadikov, Rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations in Russia. According to media reports Mr. Sadikov was shot to death in a car in Makhachkala, the capital of the Dagestan region, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. The motives for this apparent assassination are not clear at this time but seem to relate to Dr. Sadikov’s efforts to promote moderate religious education in the region to counter terrorism and extremism in the Caucasus. Please see the following two articles for additional information relating to the killing of Dr. Sadikov:
Rector at Muslim University in Russia Is Shot to Death
Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times, 6/7
Senior Dagestani Muslim Killed in a Hail of Bullets
Natalya Krainova, The Moscow Times, 6/8
Please find below a compilation of articles in the news media addressing academic freedom issues over the past week.

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BC asks for Irish project secrecy
Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe, 6/9
Annual Report 2011 of the Network of Concerned Historians
Antoon De Baets, Network of Concerned Historians, 6/8
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SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, May 28-June, 2011

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Iraq: Protest Organizers Beaten, Detained
Human Rights Watch, 6/2
Sri Lanka’s army: In bigger barracks
The Economist, 6/2
Charge Against Professor Raises Questions About Academic Freedom in Thailand
Newley Purnell, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/1
Bahrain’s ‘progressive’ influence
Ali M. Latifi, Al Jazeera, 6/1
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There is much debate over the benefits of IMF policies in Africa. For both sides see http://tinyurl.com/IMFhardship and http://tinyurl.com/IMFbenefits


International Monetary Fund Managing Director and, before he was charged, likely candidate for the French Presidency, Dominique Strauss-Kahn now sits in a cell on Rikers Island charged with assaulting the maid in his $3,000 a night hotel suite.  How long do you think the maid has to work to earn that?  One BBC report I heard last night said he likely would have been charged a discounted rate of  $800/night.  Still, I pose the same question.
I checked out hotel maid’s salaries in New York City on PayScale.com.  I ran reports with a few different sets of variable.  don’t know how long she has worked at that hotel, whether she has a supervisory role or how that hotel’s pay scale compares with others.  It seems like she might have made something in the neighborhood of $20/hour.  That’s $800 per week, i.e. the reduced rate Strauss-Kahn would have paid for one night!  The per capita Gross Domestic Product of Guinea, the woman’s home country, is $1,000 annually!  Mull that over in your brain for a minute.  If I heard those figures correctly, the room that the Managing Director of the IMF occupies in NYC costs 3 times the Gross Domestic Product of Guinea at full rate.  Fortunately the IMF is fiscally responsible and they insist on a discount rate.  They pay only 80% of Guinea’s GDP for EACH and EVERY night!
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SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, May 7-13

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Yemen: 20 teachers killed since protests began

Education International, 5/12
Uzbek Students From Kyrgyzstan Having Problems In Russia
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5/12
Fundamental Disagreements
Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher Ed, 5/12
After the Review
Dan Berrett, Inside Higher Ed, 5/11
Chaos at Home Stalls Tuition Aid for Libyan Students in U.S.
Dan Frosch, New York Times, 5/10
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SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, April 9-15

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Scholars at Risk calls for letters on behalf of Professor Nasser bin Ghaith of the UAE
Scholars at Risk, 4/15
12 Organizations Ask U. of Virginia to Safeguard Climate Researcher’s Academic Freedom
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/14
Hastings’ board pulls UC brand from rights meeting
Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle, 4/13
Top PEN Prize to Honor Nasrin Sotoudeh, Jailed Iranian Lawyer, Writer, Activist
PEN, 4/13
Iran: independent civil society organisations ignored over draft law on associations
Education International, 4/12
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