New Delhi: As a result of the ongoing debate on free speech, many students in the US, UK and across Europe have come out in solidarity with Delhi University.
Critical of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), as a mark of resistance, they have changed their profile pictures on Facebook, a step that LSR student Gurmehar Kaur had taken, igniting a nation-wide debate on free speech.
A series of events have been lined up across continents — in Oxford, Columbia University, Durham University and University of Trier in Germany — to lodge protest against the DU fracas.
“In solidarity with the students of Delhi University, who have bravely resisted the fascist forces at their gates, and their valiant teachers who, despite being dragged through the streets, beaten and bruised, stood their ground to protect the universal values of democracy. Separated by time and space, we could not be there when you they were attacked. But history connects us,” says a joint statement put out by these students, mostly enrolled in M.Phil and Masters courses.
University staff and students are photographing themselves with solidarity posters and messages and posting them on all social media.
