British police roughing protesters up

Sat Dec 11, 2010

Heavy-handed British police have gone violent in dealing with thousands of university students protesting against the government's policy on rising tuition fees.

The students protesting against the changes in the education benefits and the three-fold hike in tuition fees faced the brutality of the riot police in the main streets of London and around the parliament building.

Reports said the riot police and mounted officers used tear gas and batons to attack the protester, injuring and arresting scores of people.

British MPs ratified the policy to triple university tuition fees from £3,290 to £9,000 a year by 323 against 302 votes.

Footage from France 24, the BBC and CNN showed security forces using apparent excessive force against the university students as they tried to enter the White Hall buildings.

A number of activists managed to enter the Parliament Square and used red paint to write “No” on the grass, as a show of opposition to the cuts in the education budget and the rise in tuition fees.

The wave of unrest following the Thursday vote is a continuation of protest rallies having plagued Britain with several demonstrations, many marred with violence, against the tuition fee rises coming into force in 2012.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/154975.html.