Universities must respect peaceful activism and revise repressive policies targeting the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement on their campuses, a UN independent human rights expert said on Friday.

Gina Romero, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and association, warned that "the brutal repression of the university-based protest movement is a profound threat to democratic systems and institutions."

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