On August 5 students of the European Humanities University have carried out a protest action in defense of their university. Unlike the first spontaneous protest on July 28 by the entrance of the university, this meeting took place in the enclosed court of the building in the Pyatrus Brouka Street, 3A. Though the protest was announced widely, and all concerned people were invited to it, the place of the meeting had been changed the hour before the beginning.
The policemen shoved back protesters from the place where the meeting has been planned initially to the yard of the building. On the evening before the action, as the BelaPAN informed, the unknown with walkie-talkies got into the former building of the university and destroyed all posters prepared by the EHU students.
As the UCP press service informed, representatives of the special services forced Liudmila Hryaznova, deputy chairman of the United Civil Party, to leave the place of the protest. The organizers of the rally, who initiated dissemination of the leaflets calling for participation in the action, had no objections against the new format of the protest. The action started from collective singing of the students’ hymn “Gaudeamus”, after that members of the university administration, professors, students and graduates of the university were given the floor.
“Today’s action has shown that the nerve-strain, unanimously demonstrated by professors and students before, has calmed down. The students have shown that they do not think that the university’s shutting down is politically motivated. And it suits the authorities well, probably they would never go back on their word,” thinks Liudmila Hryaznova.
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