JERUSALEM (AA) – A report published by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says that several universities in the US and Canada have entered into agreements with Israeli security companies to suppress protests for Palestine occurring on their campuses. The report notes that after the election of Donald Trump, who pledged to penalize ac...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Some 150 students were arrested on Thursday during clashes with police in several cities across northeastern Punjab province over an alleged rape of a girl student at a private college in Lahore. Over 150 students were arrested during clashes with police on Thursday, and several others were injured in heavy tear gas [&he...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s transitional government has decided to cancel all diplomatic passports, including one with which former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took refuge in neighboring India following an August 5 student-led revolution. The Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that diplomatic or red passports that are allocated ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government. Hasina had sought since early July to quell nationwide protests against her government, but she fled after a brutal day o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh announced that a curfew will continue Friday and Saturday with a nine-hour pause amid an intensified crackdown against those involved in violence during student protests. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced at a news conference early Friday after meeting with law enforcement that the curfew, which came ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Torn portraits of Bangladesh’s independence hero litter a ransacked state television station — a pointed expression of public fury against his daughter, who just witnessed the worst unrest of her premiership. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the nation on Bangladesh Television (BTV) last week to ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Disciplinary hearing has begun for 21 students at Melbourne University for participating in a Free Palestine sit-in protest. The hearings began on Wednesday, with dozens of people, including students and academics, gathering to show their support for the accused students. They had earlier received “general misconduc...
PRAGUE (AA) – For over two weeks, hundreds of students have been encamped at the University of Copenhagen, one of hundreds of similar protests sweeping the entire globe. Their demands are centered on divestment from companies linked to Israel, while also pressing the university administration to declare Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza genocid...
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Police stormed the Free Palestine Movement camp at the University of Geneva and violently dispersed the protesting students. The protests had started on the campus last week, according to the daily Le Temps. Cleaning work started in the building after police broke up the protest camp. The students started protesting ...
