Stop UCL victimizing its students!
Defend freedom of expression on campus!

On 21st March UCL students occupied the Registry wing in support of striking lecturers. UCL Management, refusing to negotiate with the occupiers to resolve the matter, have now chosen to victimize 10 UCL students, 1 member of staff, a journalist recent alumnus, and a sympathetic student from Birkbeck by taking them to court. They may face huge legal fees and hefty punishments.

Two of the 13 were barely connected with the occupation. One is a staff member fulfilling their official trade union duty to liaise with student campaigns. The student union, UCLU, has voted in a mass general meeting that occupation is a legitimate form of protest against management's fees and cuts.

What is clear is that UCL management are cynically attempting to remove those who question their authority on campus and intimidate others into silence.

UCL Management were given ample opportunity to negotiate with the occupation. It was repeatedly made clear to them that if they promised not to victimize occupiers, the Registry would promptly be vacated. Instead they chose to escalate their threats to protesters instead of quickly reopening the registry, and to take 13 people to court.

This must stop! Defend the UCL 13