Students Held in Jail Overnight without Food in Tuition Hike Protest
From The Raw Story:
Police arrested 52 students protesting a tuition hike Thursday at the University of California-Davis and held them in jail overnight without food. One was reportedly beaten by police, a source close to the incident tells Raw Story.
The incident took place in the midst of widespread protests at several University of California campuses, in response to the Board of Regents’ decision this week to hike tuition fees by 32 percent starting next academic year.
The protesters held a sit-in in Mrak Hall, an administration building on the UC-Davis campus near Sacramento that the authorities told protesters to vacate by 5 p.m. Thursday evening. Officers from the Yolo County sheriff’s office moved in and arrested those who didn’t comply with the order.
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