University students in Switzerland join Gaza protest wave
Pro-Palestinian activists occupied university buildings in Lausanne, Geneva and Zurich on Tuesday, widening the protest movement in the Alpine nation. The hall of the architecture building of the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) is currently occupied by around 50 protestors, EPFL spokesperson Emmanuel Barraud told the Keystone-ATS news agency on Tuesday. The participants are sitting on the floor. Tents and food have been brought in. Around midday on Tuesday, the students sent a request for talks with the EPFL management. + University of Lausanne calls for end to pro-Palestine sit-in “We are in the process of organising what happens next,” explained the spokesperson. He confirmed that access to the building had been blocked, preventing other students from reaching the hall. + Student protestors at University of Lausanne continue pro-Palestine sit-in In a press release, the protestors demand “an academic boycott” of Israeli institutions and “an end to censorship at ...