- Title: WEST GERMANY: LIBYAN STUDENTS ON HUNGER STRIKE.
- Date: 24th March 1965
- Summary: 1. GV BUILDING. 0.04 2. SV STUDENTS LYING IN ROOM. 0.10 3. CU STUDENTS (4 SHOTS) 0.29 4. CU BOTTLES OF WATER PAN TO STUDENTS. 0.36 5. CU STUDENTS ON FLOOR. 0.41 6. GV DITTO. 0.50 Initials JRG/V/RM/JM JRG/V/RM/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 8th April 1965 13:00
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- Location: BONN, WEST GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVAEUWTVQGQFBMLOERZPR0IDSXR1
- Story Text: IN BONN, WEST GERMANY - ABOUT 50 LIBYAN STUDENTS ARE ON A HUNGER STRIKE IN THEIR EMBASSY TO BACK THEIR DEMANDS FOR THE REOPENING OF COLLEGES IN LIBYA CLOSED AFTER DEMONSTRATIONS LAST JANUARY.
THE STUDENTS ENTERED THE EMBASSY LAST THURSDAY TO STAGE A SIT-DOWN STRIKE WHICH BECAME A HUNGER STRIKE ON SUNDAY AFTER THE GOVERNMENT RETALIATED BY CUTTING OFF THEIR SCHOLARSHIPS AND ORDERING THEM TO RETURN HOME.
THIRTY OF THE STUDENTS ARE FROM BELGIUM.THEY WENT TO DEMONSTRATE IN BONN SINCE LIBYA HAS NO EMBASSY IN BRUSSELS.THE OTHER 20 ARE STUDYING AT GERMAN UNIVERSITIES AND THEY EXPECT OTHER LIBYANS STUDYING IN BONN TO JOIN THE STRIKE LATER.THEY HAVE CIGARETTES AND WATER, BUT NO OTHER SUPPLIES.
THE DEMONSTRATIONS WHICH LED TO THE CLOSING OF THE LIBYAN COLLEGES WERE STAGED IN MEMORY OF SEVEN STUDENTS KILLED IN DEMONSTRATIONS A YEAR EARLIER AGAINST FOREIGN MILITARY BASES IN LIBYA.
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