Yesterday, a protest occurred outside the Hallward Library on the University Park Campus, to raise awareness about the Israeli West Bank barrier, aka 'the wall'. A mock wall was constructed and spray-painted with slogans and images.

This protest caused a lot of comotion from a number of parties and after Nottingham Uni security failed to apprehend the situation, the police were called. This resulted in the threat of arrest to a number of students; breach of the peace, assaulting a police officer, 'filming a police officer'(!), obstructing a police officer and obstruction of the highway.

One student was arrested to 'apprehend a breach of the peace', despite actually doing very little wrong.

The wall was dismantled (rather symbolic given the context) and moved on after about half an hour.

Police state, anyone?