Japan police encounter protests while raiding Kyoto University dorm

Japanese police officers encountered student protests while raiding a Kyoto University dormitory in the city of Kyoto on Thursday, local media reported.

The raid was conducted in connection with an incident in which three people were arrested for attacking police officers at a demonstration in Tokyo on Nov. 2.

According to the police, the three are leftist activists, and two of them are Kyoto University students living in the same dorm.

The search was conducted in presence of university officials with the notification of the university, according to the police.

But a scuffle erupted with students trying to stop the raid. Dozens of students erected a barricade to block the officers from entering the dorm and demanded to see a court-issued search warrant.

The raid occurred nine days after a rally in protest against the arrests in Tokyo, in which students caught and cross-examined a plain-clothes officer entering university premises without permission in order to monitor the rally. Enditem