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Added on the 22/11/2023 16:44:21 - Copyright : France 24 EN
In Johannesburg, students burn tyres and demonstrate after a passerby was shot dead amid protests over student debt. Students began sporadic protests in early January over the alleged exclusion of some students by a government-sponsored tuition aid scheme. They are demanding that the University of the Witwatersrand allows all students with outstanding debt to register for the 2021 academic year. IMAGES
Police guard a closed-off street in Johannesburg after a man was shot dead when security forces moved to disperse students protesting over South Africa's tuition aid scheme. Clashes erupted when police used rubber bullets to disperse a group of students who were blocking roads with rubble and disrupting traffic in downtown Johannesburg around the University of the Witwatersrand. IMAGES
"Luiggi's place is to be free," chants a demonstrator outside the Paris Tribunal at Batignolles in Paris. A few dozen people gather to support Luiggi, a student who was arrested on Tuesday evening after pro-Palestinian activists were evacuated from the Sorbonne university in Paris. IMAGES
Around a hundred people demonstrate outside Paris City Hall to demand the release of the pro-Palestinian activists arrested after the evacuation of Sorbonne University. IMAGES
Police break up a gathering of students rallying in support of Palestinians in front of the Sorbonne University in Paris. IMAGES
Cambridge University students protest in support of Palestinians over Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, setting up a camp and erecting banners on the lawns outside a college, as British campuses echo demonstrations on US campuses that have spread to several countries. According to a local media reports, the encampment was set up on May 6. IMAGES