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Whistleblowing to the press: discrimination for exposing wrongdoing and making information public
by Abit Hoxha
Arben Hajrullahu has never done things the easy way. As a professor at the Political Science Department at the University of Prishtina, he is known for his attempts to expose institutional wrongdoings and has faced various difficulties with his employers over the years as a result.
Arben Hajrullahu.
In 2015, he supported the student protest against the then-rector of the university, who was found to have published his "scientific" work in supposedly academic peer reviewed journals in India, which turned out to be fake.
Recently, Hajrullahu has once again found himself at odds with his employer, and back in the…