Details are trickling in about 20-year-old University student Morgan Hager, who was reportedly arrested and hospitalized during a police raid in Genoa, Italy, where she and other protesters of the G-8 convention were sleeping.
Hager’s mother, Susan, said a U.S. Consulate official in Milan contacted her with the news of Morgan Hager’s hospitalization and arrest, but her daughter’s medical condition and charges have not been released or confirmed.
Susan Hager said her daughter left a month early for an exchange program in Siena, Italy, and e-mailed the family that she was going to Genoa to protest the G-8 meeting, and she would be sleeping in a gymnasium opened specifically for protesters.
Morgan Hager’s Eugene roommate, J.D. Leahy, said he hadn’t heard about her arrest, but he knew she was going to be in Genoa.
Her e-mail also said she was being careful and the gym would be a safe place to sleep, which her mother said she believed. According to The Associated Press, police officers made their raid Monday and arrested about 180 people. The incident comes after one protester died Friday.
Susan Hager said she doesn’t expect any new confirmed information about her daughter to come until the Italian government decides to officially press charges.