The university’s LGBTI+ solidarity group, established in 1996, has held annual Pride marches on campus since 2011.
All charges against the human rights defenders should be dropped immediately, and this case should be closed.” “No one should be prosecuted for exercising their right to peaceful assembly. “The defenders were practising their right to assembly and standing up for the rights of others in a peaceful manner when the police attacked and arrested them,” said Björn van Roozendaal, programmes director for the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe), who was speaking on behalf of four campaigning groups. All were released on the same day, but 19 were charged in August. Twenty-two people were arrested during a police raid at the event, where pepper spray, tear gas and plastic bullets were used to break up the crowd.
