NUS: Students Suspended for Criticising College
Two students from Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham were this week suspended for criticising their college in a newsletter.
Assed Baig and Darrell Williams were asked to leave the college after distributing a student-run newsletter ‘The Guerilla’ which criticised the college’s failure to provide formal student representation and the decision to prevent religious student groups on campus. The article asks “whether the college is ‘aware that they are in breach of Human Rights Act of 1998, article 11, which states that everyone has ‘the right to freedom of peaceful assembly.’”
(via Kitty Killer)
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Posted on January 9th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
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How ironic that they would stymie free speech by suspending people for criticising the university’s Human Rights record?
You’re not wrong, Gavin. A nominee for The Yorkshire Ranter’s Orwell Awards, methinks.
Its nice to see that we are getting support from other people. The college has now expelled us, and they have no grounds to do so, their just scared. Anyway there is a protest friday 8.30 am if you can get out of bed, outside Matthew Boulton college. You have to see this college, 40 million on a new campus and inside they have what can be discribed as nothing less than a police state!
Has this story reached a wider audience that the World of Blogs? It ought to.
Hardly at all.
Had a long chat with Assed and Daniel last night - they are both lovely guys. Will forgoe Lost (shudder) so I can get it all up on KK.