Pro-Palestine protests continue at American, Australian universities
WORLD, May 22 (YPA) – Student protests in support of Palestine and in support of Gaza continued on Tuesday in American and Australian universities despite warnings issued by administrations to their participants.
This comes at a time when the Supreme Court in London ruled on Tuesday that Britain had illegally granted the police broader powers to impose restrictions on peaceful protests.
‘Yale’ University in the US province of Connecticut witnessed a protest during a graduation ceremony in which 150 students left the ceremony in solidarity with Palestine, while students at ‘Drexel’ University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, set up a camping camp to express their solidarity with the Gaza Strip and Palestine.
In the same context, students at ‘Wesleyan’ University in Connecticut announced that they had reached an agreement with the university administration to suspend its investments in companies cooperating with Israel.
In Australia, students at the University of ‘Melbourne’ in the province of Victoria continue their protests for the seventh day in a row, at a time when police arrested two students during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine at the University of ‘Queensland’.
For its part, the university administration called on the students of its affiliated Arts West College to remove the tents they had set up to demonstrate and warned them of expulsion if they did not respond to this.
On the other hand, the Supreme Court in London ruled on Tuesday that Britain had illegally granted the police broader powers to impose restrictions on peaceful protests that cause “more than slight” disturbance to the public, according to what “Reuters” reported.
Civil rights organization ‘Liberty’ has filed a lawsuit against the government over changes it made last year to public order laws, which it says gave police almost unlimited powers to suppress protests.
Judges ‘David Benn’ and ‘Timothy Kerr’ ruled in favor of the organization today, finding that the regulations granting the new powers were “unlawful”.
YPA