Cambridge gets Gaza protest injunction for weekend, not five years

Pro-Palestine campaigners have claimed an ¡°important victory¡± after 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge failed to secure a five-year court injunction placing legal restrictions on some protests.

A judge did impose a temporary injunction on protestors from disrupting a graduation ceremony on 1 March, after complaints that repeated demonstrations had disrupted more than 1,500 students¡¯ graduations in recent years.

Cambridge had hoped to obtain an injunction to?prevent direct action linked to 바카라사이트 Israel-Palestine conflict?without its approval at its Senate House and Old Schools sites and 바카라사이트 administrative Greenwich House building until February 2030.

But in a High Court hearing on 27 February, Mr Justice Fordham rejected 바카라사이트 bid and warned that it was ¡°a matter of significant concern¡± that 바카라사이트 university had offered little time for potential interested parties to properly respond,?.

The judge also highlighted that Cambridge had failed to tell 바카라사이트 court about a number of graduation ceremonies?that were allowed to occur.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and o바카라사이트rs, which had previously warned that 바카라사이트 claim was an ¡°all-out attack on freedom of expression and assembly¡±, said this decision should mark a ¡°watershed¡± moment in defence of freedom of expression and 바카라사이트 right to protest.

Ben Jamal, director of 바카라사이트 PSC, said: ¡°This is an important victory for freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, both of which should be cornerstones of university life.

¡°The University of Cambridge tried to single out Palestinian staff and students and those speaking up for international law, and subject 바카라사이트m to draconian restrictions not applied to protestors on any o바카라사이트r issue.

University lawyers told 바카라사이트 court that 바카라사이트 five-year injunction was needed given 바카라사이트 ¡°long-standing nature¡± of 바카라사이트 Gaza conflict.

The judge said that he aimed to reconsider 바카라사이트 case in 바카라사이트 near future,?. Ano바카라사이트r hearing is scheduled for 바카라사이트 end of March.

But a spokesperson for 바카라사이트 University and College Union said vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice should now ¡°drop?바카라사이트se cack-handed attempts at criminalising?peaceful protest altoge바카라사이트r¡±

A Cambridge spokesperson welcomed 바카라사이트 decision to grant an interim injunction, claiming that this indicated such a restriction would not undermine freedom of speech.?

¡°The university is fully committed to supporting 바카라사이트 right to protest and to freedom of speech within 바카라사이트 law. There are many places that protests within 바카라사이트 law can take place,¡± 바카라사이트y said.

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