In December at the University of Chicago, fourth-year student Mamayan Jabateh was arrested by Chicago police officers while working on a final paper about the “carceral state” after attending a pro-Palestinian campus protest. Jabateh was handcuffed, detained for 30 hours, indefinitely suspended, and banned from campus, reflecting a trend of harsher punishments against pro-Palestinian protesters as national politics in the US shift rightward. Legal support is being provided to Jabateh during the disciplinary process.
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