EFF condemns ‘brutal’ police response to Rhodes student protests

20 April 2016 - 17:16 By TMG Digital

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party has condemned what it called the “brutal’ police response to the ongoing student protests against rape attacks on the campus of Rhodes University in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. Several protesting students were arrested during running skirmishes with police on Wednesday.Students protesting over list of alleged rapists arrested at Rhodes UniversityStudents barricaded roads between the university and the city overnight and on Wednesday morning.See the latest pics from #RhodesShutdownPolice fired stun grenades into some of the barricades to make students move back.MA Anthropology student tells me she heard stun grenades and screams. Students here comfort each other @HeraldPEpic.twitter.com/u5qucCRakJ— Deneesha Pillay (@deneeshapillay) April 20, 2016stunRhodes suspends lectures as police arrest studentsIn a statement‚ the EFF accused police of attacking “non-violent and unarmed students with rubber bullets and teargas”.“We call on the police to restrain themselves and also release the arrested students with immediate effect‚” the party said.It said the students were raising a legitimate concern about “the failures of our society‚ in particular the very police‚ university management and the entire justice system in dealing with rape and rape culture”. ..

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