A boxes of pro-palestinian protesters who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied and allegedly put on hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a campus building, now face charges.
The twelve people, current and previous students of Stanford, have been accused of serious crime of Vandalmm and conspiracy of serious crimes to transfer, said the office of the District Prosecutor of Santa Clara county on Thursday in a press release.
The charges are between 19 and 32, said the prosecutor’s office. They will be arrested at the end of this month in the San José Justice Hall.
A journalist student, who was arrested with protesters but was not accused of participating in vandalism, was not accused.
Stanford’s acquisition began around dawn on June 5, 2024, the last day of spring classes at the University at the Silicon Valley in California.
Some protesters locked themselves inside the building, which houses the office of the president of the university. Others linked their arms outside, Stanford Daily reported at that time.
The group sang “Palestine will be free, we will free Palestine.”
The acquisition ended three hours later.
Prosecutors face the protesters of aerosol paint in the building, breaking windows and furniture, disabled security cameras and splashing a red liquid described as false blood in the items through the building.
The damage was estimated at the hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to prosecutors.
The cell phones belonging to those arrested showed communications on operation planning, including a “DIY Occupation Guide,” prosecutors said.
The AP registered at least 86 incidents last spring in which a trial was issued in the protests of the University or University Campus against the War in Gaza in the United States.