Mayor Supports Students’ Right to ‘Peacefully Assemble and Protest’ at UC Irvine

‘I am asking our law enforcement to stand down,’ Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan said.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at the intersection of Campus Drive and W. Peltason Drive near the University of California–Irvine in Irvine, Calif., on April 29, 2024. Rudy Blalock/The Epoch Times

An encampment of pro-Palestinian supporters formed April 29 is still holding strong at the University of California–Irvine with an estimated 60 students and others occupying tents near the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall.

Law enforcement have been asked to not intervene by Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan, who remained on campus all day April 29 as more than 100 surrounded the encampment.