Inside the UK’s accelerating crackdown on student protests

As she set up camp inside her university building on the night of 14 November 2024, Ava* expected to wake up to a knock from campus security. What she had not anticipated was at least a dozen police officers swooping in on her and her fellow pro-Palestine protesters. For the next 11 months, her life would be put on pause – an ordeal that has culminated in a criminal conviction that jeopardises her hopes of one day working withhellip;

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