SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, March 31-April 6, 2012

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Faculty union launches bid to shield Attaran
Andrew Duffy, Ottawa Citizen, 4/6
A Call to Respect Rights
Mitch Smith, Inside Higher Ed, 4/6
Don’t Touch My Textbook
Mitch Smith, Inside Higher Ed, 4/6
Amnesty International Urges Sudan to Release Student Activist
Salma El Wardany, Bloomberg Businessweek, 4/6
Ai Weiwei Ordered to Stop Self-Surveillance
Josh Chi, The Wall Street Journal, 4/5

Tragedy of Darfuris Comes to Khartoum
Girifna, 4/4
Student Protest and Pepper Spray at Santa Monica College
Inside Higher Ed, 4/4
Tunisia: Protecting free expression and free information in new constitution
Article 19, 4/4
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Eugenie Samuel Reich, Nature, 4/3
Facebook posts lead to arrests of journalists in West Bank
Noah Browning, MSNBC, 4/3
York University’s $60 million deal with Jim Balsillie’s think tank cancelled over lack of faculty support
Louise Brown, Toronto Star, 4/2
Mubarak-era campus election rules divide students
Ashraf Khaled, University World News, 4/1
Guerrillas ‘infiltrate’ Colombian universities
University World News, 4/1
Academic responsibility
Tanvir Ahmad Khan, The Express Tribune, 4/1
Civil society demands inquest into student’s death, more academic freedom
University World News, 3/30
New SAIH-report on violence against teachers and students in Zimbabwe
SAIH, 3/22http://www.saih.no/Artikler/9763.html
Azerbaijani Authorities Continue to Pressure Intellectuals, Stifle Freedoms
Freedom House