A Cambridge faculty has been granted an interim Excessive Court docket injunction towards pro-Palestine protesters who had taken up place in its grounds.
Activists from the Cambridge 4 Palestine group have been evicted from land at Magdalene Faculty, off town’s Bridge Road, on Tuesday morning at about 07:00 BST.
The authorized stance follows comparable motion by each Trinity Faculty and St John’s Faculty after the group arrange camp on their websites in current weeks.
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police stated: “Officers attended in case there was a breach of the peace however there was none.”
Magdalene Faculty has been contacted for remark.
The injunction papers, which cowl the whole Magdalene website, state that the faculty “is totally dedicated to the precept and to the promotion of freedom of speech”.
The Cambridge 4 Palestine protest at Magdalene Faculty started on 21 June, with activists arriving on the website by boat [BBC]
In a press release, the protest group stated the college had spent “hundreds of kilos handy our protesters an interim injunction and fence of their possessions, as a substitute of trying to support struggling Palestinians with that cash”.
It added: “As college students who don’t need their tuition cash being spent on the ravenous of infants, we reject the try and repress our proper to protest complicity on this violence.”
On 30 Might, activists camped on Newton Garden exterior Trinity Faculty, later shifting to land at St John’s Faculty earlier than each faculties served injunctions.
Final yr, pro-Palestine protesters staged demonstrations at Senate Home Yard and Greenwich Home which “compelled” a commencement ceremony to be moved, college legal professionals beforehand stated.
A earlier effort to impose a five-year injunction prohibiting direct motion referring to the battle with out its consent on a number of websites was additionally rejected by a choose in February.
Comply with Cambridgeshire information on BBC Sounds, Fb, Instagram and X.
Extra on this story
