One such student is Bahia Azazka, a second-year pharmacy student at Ferhat Abbas Sétif University 1, in Sétif, east of the capital, Algiers.
Her university is more than 80 kilometers from her family’s house, but she chose to stay with her family to avoid “sexual harassment in the university housing,” Azazka told Al-Fanar Media.
Samir Ansal, an official in the Free Student Union in Algeria, told Al-Fanar Media that sexual assault and…