NANAIMO, B.C. — A deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to dismantle an encampment at Vancouver Island University in Naniamo, B.C., has expired without the demonstrators leaving.
The university last Thursday issued a trespass notice to the protesters over the camp that has been in place since May 1, saying legal action would be launched if they did not leave by 8 a.m. Monday.
The protesters say in a social media post that they remain"steadfast" and that by issuing the deadline the university has chosen to put students at risk,"to villainize them and punish them for using their right to protest." The university said in a statement last week that if protesters were not gone by the deadline, it would"take all legal steps necessary to remove them."
The university said the protesters had been escalating their actions, and had engaged in vandalism, disrupted an exam and occupied various buildings.
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