Universal: Academic freedom reports worldwide

A Guinean student in Gambia has been released after more than two months in prison or under house arrest, following allegations that he had been planning an uprising. In the UK an Oxford academic has been allowed under freedom of information laws, to read data previously secrets about climate change. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has been criticized for urging staff and students at its medical school in Bahrain do not get involved in politics and not to take a stand against the repression of doctors. And in Malaysia, a student from South Korea was arrested after attending a pro-democracy protest.

Gambia: Guinean student released

A Guinean student in Gambia has been released after more than two months in prison or under house arrest, following allegations that he had been planning an uprising in the style of Egypt, All Africa reported July 5.

Moister Diablo, Guinea student of anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC), was arrested on April 30 in Gambia, where he was conducting research for his master's thesis on transnational migration.

Diablo was accused by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency threaten national security by spreading revolutionary ideas.

After his arrest, he spent a week in detention for questioning and then was placed under arrest. It is reported that Diablo was tortured not only thanks to the presence of an official of Guinea. On June 28, was taken into custody when it was reported to the authorities that the terrorism charges were pending against him.

According to Phillip Risk, a colleague of the AUC Diablo, his close connection with Egypt and left literature found in his belongings confiscated, led the intelligence agency for thought Diablo was planning to organize an uprising in the style of Egypt against the Gambian authorities.

After his release, Diablo declared that he had been acquitted of all charges by the Gambian intelligence services and that he would be able to leave the country in the coming days after the Gambian police had completed a final test their student status.

UK: Oxford academic allow access to climate data

An Oxford academic has allowed, through freedom of information laws, to read data previously secrets about climate change, the Guardian reported on July 1.

Jonathan Jones, professor of physics at Oxford University, has been authorized by the commissioner of government information in the UK, Christopher Graham, access data on climate change held at the University of East Anglia.

The Guardian reported that access "has been hailed as a historic mistake that will mean that thousands of British researchers are required to share their data with the public." The decision gives the right to read data compiled by Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia. His research contains more than four billion temperature records taken at 4,000 weather stations over a period of 160 years.

Jonathan Jones took the case to the Information Commissioner after he was denied access to the data of Phil Jones, who had already been shared with some of his collaborators. Scientists reveal that fight over the interpretation of information on climate change.