BIRMINGHAM students marched into university premises yesterday and occupied a building in solidarity with two protesters victimised by management. 

Student activists took over Birmingham University’s Strathcona Building in the early hours of Monday in defence of Simon Furse and Kelly Rogers’s suspensions for anti-privatisation protests. 

Mr Furse and Ms Rogers were banned from study or political activity on campus last week for nine months by a university disciplinary panel for taking part in a week-long occupation in November against bosses’ privatisation plans.