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LUMS students' protest continues: Police baton-charge protesters
LAHORE, Dec 06, 2007: Students of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
continued their protest and organised a sit-in on Wednesday.
A LUMS
student said that several students addressed the protestors and
condemned the first information reports (FIRs) registered against faculty
members. He said the speakers condemned the forcible eviction of Justice
(deposed) Shahid Siddiqui from his official residence. "They denounced the
disgraceful treatment meted out to US activists Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry,"
he said. He said LUMS activists were present at Justice Siddiqui's residence
from Tuesday night onwards forming a human shield to prevent the police from
entering the premises.
Another LUMS student said LUMS Action Committee
members along with human rights activists, lawyers, students and civil society
members attended a debate at Lahore Press Club on Wednesday. She said the LUMS
Student Action Committee had organised a protest to be held on Thursday (today).Daily Times
Police baton-charge student protesters
ISLAMABAD: Riot police was stoned in the capital city on Wednesday
when they baton charged a group of students after being provoked by fiery
slogans against them in a protest demonstration near Aabpara police
station.
The clash broke out between the law enforcers and the pupil near
the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club (RIPC) camp office soon after the youth were
prevented from marching down towards the Judicial Colony.
Though angered
by the police move, the students began to disperse while chanting slogans that
infuriated the personnel in full riot gear and armed with truncheons.
The
protesters shouted out "shame police shame" and "shame uniform shame" as they
confronted the onslaught.
Several rally participants suffered injuries
when the police charged at them while brandishing the sticks and hitting them
carelessly. Enraged by the violent attack, the students struck back by pelting
the aggressors with stones.
Earlier, more than 200 students of the
International Islamic University, Quaid-i-Azam University, University of Arid
Agriculture Rawalpindi, Federal Urdu University, Punjab College of Commerce, and
National University of Modern Languages gathered at the Rawalpindi-Islamabad
Press Club camp office at around 12 noon.
The call for the rally was
given by the Joint Student Movement to express solidarity with the judiciary and
media.
They were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans in
favour of the ousted judiciary and the media, demanding their
freedom.
"The students are already out on roads and they will fight until
the end of dictatorship," they noted. Dawn
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