The prosecution took this action on charges that the students disturbed the enforcement of the law and their crime was grave.

Disclosing the injustice of their charges, lawyers of the Bar Association for Democratic Society said the prosecution is citing "concern over the destruction of evidence" as a pretext for arrest.

The chairperson of the Students' Committee of the UPP branded the prosecution's action as a tyrannical step taken by the regime in its closing period to kill the progressive forces.