(CBC) Red tape covered their mouths. Their hands were bound behind their backs. They were on their knees.
That was the silent statement protesters wanted to make as they gathered in front of Montreal’s McGill University Thursday afternoon to demonstrate against online comments allegedly made by a fall semester lecturer in the school’s Jewish studies program.
The comments, posted to Twitter and later deleted, appear to encourage violence against protesters in Iran.
CBC News has only seen a screenshot of the tweet. It shows Soroosh Shahriari saying how “heartwarming it will be to experience the execution of hundreds of Mojahedin leaders arrested in recent riots.”
An online petition calling on McGill to investigate the matter and take appropriate action has gathered nearly 24,000 signatures.
