RI Judge Issues ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict for Anti-Israel Student Activists Arrested at Brown University in DecemberA judge in Providence, Rhode Island, has just released more than 40 Brown University students who were arrested in December for trespassing in a campus building. The school did not drop the charges against them, but the judge gave them a free pass.
“I think this is a reflection of what nonviolent and peaceful resistance, frankly, is supposed to look like,” he said. Brown university refused to drop the charges so the judge issued a not guilty filing for 41 anti-genocide student protestors who were accused of trespassing. In April, Brown refused to drop these charges in multiple rounds of negotiations with students encamping in support of divestment, despite a formal recommendation by the Brown University Community Council, a University advisory body.