TWO universities in the UK have secured High Court orders for the possession of campus land that has been the site of weeks-long pro-Palestinian…
TWO universities in the UK have secured High Court orders for the possession of campus land that has been the site of weeks-long pro-Palestinian protest encampments.
The orders cover the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus, where there were around 10 to 15 tents near the Advanced Manufacturing Building. Protesters, many of whom universities have been unable to identify, allege universities are “complicit” in the loss of life in Palestine and should “divest” from links to arms firms.
Mr Justice Johnson said he came to his two rulings on the assumption that the camps were “peaceful” and did not rule on disputed accounts of alleged disruptive acts. The rulings follow London School of Economics securing a Central London County Court order indefinitely barring encampments in one of its buildings after students slept in its atrium for more than a month in support of Palestine.
“Protests at universities have a long tradition in democratic society and we maintain that the university is breaching our client’s fundamental human rights,” he said.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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