The Associated Press reported Saturday that junior art major Morgan Hager has been released from jail in Italy after being arrested and hospitalized during protests in Genoa, Italy, last week.
Charges were dropped against Hager, 20, of vandalism, resisting arrest and possession of arms such as sticks and bottles, but she was ordered to leave the country.
Hager’s parents, Susan and Chris, flew to Italy last week to meet her and bring her home early this week.
Genoa police raided the quarters where Hager and other protesters slept, reportedly based on tips that the “Black Bloc,” a protester sect that has caused violence at previous demonstrations, was housed there.
Susan Hager said her daughter has always believed protests should be nonviolent affairs, and added that she sustained bruises and a fractured arm in the raid.
Hager’s order to leave the country could interfere with her plan to spend fall term studying art in Siena, Italy.
Charges against UO student dropped
Daily Emerald
July 30, 2001
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