They set up camp after the release of the student union's Assets in Apartheid report.
The London School of Economics has been granted a court order indefinitely barring camps in one of its buildings after students slept in an atrium for more than a month in support of Palestine.That meant the activists had to leave within 24 hours of the order being served.At a hearing at Central London County Court on Friday, District Judge Morayo Fagborun-Bennett granted a possession order, meaning no encampments can be set up at the same location indefinitely.
Daniel Grutters, representing three students, said: "Those instructing me had only opposed the making of the interim possession order.The camp was set up after the release of the Assets in Apartheid report by the LSE Students' Union's Palestine Society. The report alleged LSE has invested £89m in 137 companies involved in the conflict in Gaza, fossil fuels, the arms industry or nuclear weapons production.
Dozens of students slept in the Marshall Building for more than a month and said they would remain there until LSE took several steps, including democratisation of the financial decision-making process.Man killed two women who told police he was violent
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