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The English Language University is scheduled to be fined at a value of 585,000 pounds due to allegations that have failed to support freedom of expression and academic freedom, in a historical judgment in discussing the rights of students on the campus.

The higher education organizer in England found “major and serious violations” for freedom of expression and governance issues in Sussex UniversityAccording to the press statement project, which was seen by the Vinanchel Times times.

Students’ journalist’s office, which will be published on Wednesday, said that policies that aim to prevent abuse or harassing certain groups on campus have created a “chilling effect” may cause “self -censorship” of employees and students.

The decision comes after the United States Vice President JD Vance last month, Sir Kerr Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, came to the need to defend freedom of expression during a confrontation in the oval office. Elon Musk, artistic billionaire, advisor and donor to President Donald Trump, claimed that Britain suffocates freedom of expression.

The Off report is the end of the investigation, which started more than three years ago. I was born before condition Kathleen Stoke, a philosophy professor who said she was forced to leave the university in 2021 through a three -year campaign of bullying and assassination of the character.

The stocks were in the center of the class to identify sex and the rights of transgender people and claimed that there is a “poisonous” environment in universityWhich was criticized by the organizer, “the non -transient and non -bilateral” equality policy. “

Some students were glowing because of the shares of the stock with the LGB alliance, an invitation organization that opposes “the idea that the sex, and the way you feel or wear it, is more important than biological sex.”

After appointing Obe to the 2021 ranking list, Stock was accused of using her position “for more sexual persecution” in an open message signed by several hundreds of philosopher academics who protest the award.

In 2021, Stoke FT told that students, external activists and even some of her colleagues accused her of Tanfobia and blowing them to shoot her. The stocks refused to comment on the results of OFS.

OFS, which was established in 2017, will send a strong message to higher education institutions that are trying to balance the “hate speech” on the campus and defend freedom of expression.

The university, which ranked twenty -sixth out of 104 institutions in the United Kingdom in the rankings of the 2024 Times University, was an angry reaction. Sasha Rosenil, Vice President of the University, said that the organizer had issued a “absolute judgment of freedom of expression as a basic principle” for universities.

Rosenil claimed that the organizer “refused to speak to us” and that the imposed fine was “completely incompatible.” She said that the university defended the right of shares to pursue its academic work and express its “legal beliefs.”

She added that the ruling made it actually impossible for universities to prevent abuse, harassment or bullying, or to protect the groups subject to harmful propaganda, or to determine that stereotypes should not be relied upon in the university curriculum.

The university organizer’s decision to punish Sussex comes after the previous conservative government approved the Higher Education Law (Freedom of Expression) for the year 2023 to tighten laws on freedom of expression.

However, in January He said It will not provide many planned measures to the conservatives, on the pretext that the law was strong enough.

Offs found that the Sussex policy statement on “non -transient and non -bilateral equality” failed to support the principles of freedom of expression and academic freedom, which created a “chilling effect” on the campus.

He also said that the university failed in “management arrangements and effective and adequate governance.”

The Offsh’s investigation focused on the university’s compliance with regulations instead of the status of private stocks. However, I found “no evidence indicating that Professor Stoke’s speech during her work at the university was illegal.” Academic work covered sex, sex and individual rights issues.

Sussex argues that universities are now exposed to organizational risks if they have policies that protect employees and students from racist, gay, or anti -Semitic abuse or anti -Muslims or other abuse.

At the OFS investigation center, Arif Ahmed, the first director of the regulator for freedom of expression and academic freedom, was appointed in this role in 2023 and was surprised by the conservatives of his strong position on this issue.

Claire Coutinho, Minister of Education at the time, said at that time: “The professor of philosophy wrote enthusiastically in defending freedom of expression in the media,” said Claire Coutinho, Minister of Education at that time. “He stood firm in facing attempts to close his speaking events.”

Ahmed, who remained in the Post under the Labor Party, said in a statement that the fine imposed on Sussex was “dramatically reduced” because this is the first case of its kind, adding that Offs decided to publish its results to enable other universities to comply with the duties of freedom of expression.

The Ministry of Education said it will not comment on “leaks”.