Tear gas filled the air and stun grenades echoed around the campus as the University of Novi Sad in northern Serbia descended into chaos on Friday night after police charged at citizens who had been peacefully protesting in front of the Faculty of Philosophy. "First, a unit of riot police burst out of the park, from the dark, rushed into the crowd and started hitting people with batons," Norbert Sinkovic, a teaching assistant at the faculty, told DW.
Demonstrations had begun peacefully, but turned violent against the nation's elite paramilitary police unit after footage showed one of its teams running over 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan late on Thursday. Protests have since spread from the capital, Jakarta, to other major cities, including Yogyakarta, Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya in Java, and Medan in North Sumatra province, in the worst unrest since Prabowo took power.
"This surge in internet prices without notice has pushed students to their limits, causing them to demand accountability from a government that seems increasingly detached from their struggles."
The demand for an investigation into Columbia University student protesters has raised significant alarm among career prosecutors who see it as politically motivated and legally unsound.
"The hunger strikers say they were inspired by students at Chapman University in Orange, who launched a similar campaign in April. That strike ended after 10 days with no concessions from their university."
The Trump administration's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism cautiously praised Yale for yanking Yalies4Palestine's status and enforcing campus policies during protests against antisemitism.
Students and instructors have the option for remote learning and excused absences after backlash against returning to classes so soon after the campus shooting.