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SvennoJ on 23 April 2024
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More than 130 arrested at NYU campus in protests over Gaza war

The New York Police Department has said 133 people were arrested and released, after being issued with court summons, during pro-Palestine protests on the New York University campus. As protests also intensify at Yale, Columbia University and on other campuses, police began detaining demonstrators at an encampment at NYU.

A New York University spokesman said the decision to call police came after additional protesters, many of whom were not thought to be affiliated with NYU, breached the barriers erected around the encampment.

The protests began last week at Columbia University, also in New York, with a large group of demonstrators establishing the so-called “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on school grounds.

There were also demonstrations at MIT, the University of Michigan and Yale, where at least 47 people were arrested Monday after refusing requests to disperse.



Students protest for Palestine on University of Michigan campus


A coalition of University of Michigan students in Ann Arbor, Michigan, have camped to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing war on Gaza.



Egyptian women arrested after gathering in solidarity with Gaza and Sudan

A human rights lawyer has said that Egyptians gathered earlier today outside of the UN Women office in Cairo in solidarity with women in Gaza and Sudan.

“In response, Egyptian authorities arrested a number of participants, including … Lobna Darwish”, who works on gender issues for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), said Mai El-Sadany in a post on X.

The detained include lawyers, journalists, and civil society leaders, El-Sadany said.