Three climate activist students from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon They were detained this Wednesday by the PSP at the institution, and this afternoon two dozen supportive students held a vigil at the Campo Grande police station, where the young women are being held.
According to a statement from the Student Climate Strike movement in Lisbon, the young people would be giving a climate action talk which was attended by several dozen university students. Two were arrested for giving the lecture and the other was arrested just for watching.
Images of the action published on social networks show at least a dozen police officers inside the school detaining the three young women, but the statement states that they entered the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon (FPUL). “dozens of police officers.” Currently there is no information on the PSP.
This afternoon, about two dozen young people gathered near the Campo Grande police station, in solidarity with the three young womenensuring that they will remain there until they are free.
This week, a repression of student struggle is becoming normalized on a scale not seen in decades. “How is it possible that students who are simply trying to fight for their future are detained?” André Matias, spokesperson for the “end of the fossil” core of the FPUL, asks, quoted in the statement.
Catarina Bio, from Student Climate Strike, told Lusa that the The director of the faculty warned students that political conversations would not be allowed, so the two students who were speaking were aware of what could happen. the third student was arrested for filminghe said.
According to the students’ report, the detained girls were dragged into police vans outside the university, while observers sang the chant: “What a shame it must be to detain students in a burning world!”
Disturbing. Not even the dismissal of the rector will be able to erase this shame. https://t.co/9L1MD6OJS9 pic.twitter.com/xbx4bIxQCZ
-Diogo Duarte (@DMainselDuarte) November 15, 2023
Students from various institutions have been promoting the various actions in schools demand an end to fossil fuels by 2030 and 100% renewable and affordable electricity by 2025. The students want this year to be the last winter in which fossil gas is used to produce electricity in Portugal.
Since Monday, nine students have been detained, then, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, six students were detained for refusing to leave the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH).
At that time, the movement claimed that young people were targets of violence and insults by the police, something the PSP did not comment on.
This Wednesday, Catarina Bio explained to Lusa that the the police “used torture techniques” to remove students from FCSH, such as pressing their eyes, twisting their wrists, dragging them by their hair, or pressing them against a wall.
When leaving the school, a police car collided with a civilian car and one of the young people who was traveling in the vehicle, with his hands handcuffed behind his back, had to be hospitalized, according to the source, who regretted that the police had not done so. what they should,” which in this case was that if the person was handcuffed, their hands should be in front of them. The young people, he said, admits filing a complaint against the PSP.
Source: Observadora
