US: Arrest of 11 Pro-Palestine Demonstrators at the University of Minnesota

Published on October 22, 2024
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The American police arrested 11 demonstrators who protested in front of the University of Minnesota’s administrative building against the genocide committed by the Zionist enemy against the people of the Gaza Strip for more than a year.

CBS News network indicated today, Tuesday, that 30 people from the group that organized a demonstration in front of Morrill Hall, the university’s administrative building, entered the building and held a sit-in inside it.

Later, the police arrested 11 of the protesters, claiming that they “caused material damage and closed the entrances and exits of the building.”

University officials present in Morrill Hall demanded that they leave the building, and others stay away from the area until further notice.

Merlene Van Alstyne, one of the protest organizers, said before her arrest: “Those who entered the building will not leave until our demands are met or they are forcibly removed.”

For his part, the university spokesman indicated in a statement that the students who entered the administrative building covered the security cameras in the building with paint, broke the windows, and fortified the entry and exit points of the building.

It is noteworthy that American universities began taking stricter measures in the new academic year following protests in solidarity with the Palestinians that started at Columbia University in mid-April and spread to many universities around the world.

With American support, the Zionist enemy has been waging a genocide on Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 142,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

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