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Research ministry official had initiated a review of “funding-related consequences” for professors who defended protests
Sabine Döring, an official with responsibility for universities in Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research, has been forced to step down over the department’s response to a pro-Palestinian protest camp at the Free University of Berlin.
Media reports revealed that the ministry had investigated whether funding could be withdrawn from university professors who signed an open letter in May objecting to the eviction of protesters from the camp.
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