Indian-origin Student Arrested At Pro-Palestine Protest In Princeton University

Indian-origin student Achinthya Sivalingan was one of two students arrested at Princeton University in the US for participating in a pro-Palestine protest on the campus.

Coimbatore-born Sivalingan and Hassan Sayed, a fifth-year PhD student, were detained when the protesters were setting up tents in the university courtyard early Thursday morning, according to the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

“A document shared by protesters identified the arrested students as Achinthya Sivalingam and Hassan Sayed. Urvi, a first-year Ph.D. student who asked to be identified only by her first name, called the arrest “violent” and said zip ties were put around their wrists,” the college alumni magazine stated.

In a statement, Jennifer Morrill, a spokesperson for the University, stated that pitching tents violated University policy, leading to the arrest of the two students for trespassing “[a]fter repeated warnings from the Department of Public Safety to cease the activity and leave the area.”

Additionally, Morrill mentioned that Sivalingan and Sayed “have been immediately barred from campus, pending a disciplinary process.” She also noted that the remaining tents were “voluntarily taken down by protestors.”

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