July 6, 2001

Students in 9 African Countries Suffered Rights Abuses, Amnesty International Reports; Kenya May Send Ethiopian Students to Refugee Camps

Students in nine African countries were murdered, tortured, beaten, or arrested without charges being filed last year, according to Amnesty International's annual tally of human-rights violations.

In Africa, where one-party states predominate, university students and professors are often at the forefront of calls for multiparty democracy. Apparently as a result of that, they are also subject to a high number of human-rights abuses.

An analysis of violations against academics