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bemildred

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Fri May 25, 2012, 11:40 AM May 2012

Montreal's student protesters defy restrictions as demonstrations grow

Source: Guardian.UK

Demonstrators in Montreal have continued to defy an emergency law passed by the provincial government in Quebec to restrict protests by students against planned tuition fee hikes.

As has become traditional, groups of protesters banged pots and pants, marching around the city for several hours.

But there was no repeat of the mass arrests that characterised the protests earlier in the week. On Wednesday, more than 500 Montrealers were arrested – more than during the entire October 1970 crisis when martial law was declared in the city in response to actions by Quebec nationalists.

The total number of those arrested in the current protests has now exceeded 2,500, and the judicial process is already showing signs that it is struggling to cope.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/25/montrea-student-protesters-defy-restrictionsw?newsfeed=true

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Montreal's student protesters defy restrictions as demonstrations grow (Original Post) bemildred May 2012 OP
Excellent, like I said long ago, there won't be enough effin' jails to hold 'em Zalatix May 2012 #1
typo... PatrynXX May 2012 #2
The correct response to that hideous law. (nt) Posteritatis May 2012 #3
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