It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
A pro-life activist was sentenced to over four years in prison for partaking in a protest outside of a Washington, D.C., abortion center in October 2020.
A report from watchdog organization NGO Monitor found that the terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has a "strong presence at encampments, demonstrations, and riots on American college campuses."
Two university staffers were reportedly among the group of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested inside the Columbia University building that they broke into and occupied this week, according to school officials.
Cuba sentenced 22-year-old Mayelín Rodríguez Prado to 15 years in prison this week for filming peaceful protests in the town of Nuevitas in August 2022.
The parents of a teenager who shot and killed four high school students in Oxford, Michigan in November 2021 have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison each.
