On the pro-government TV channel Imedi’s program Open Air, a former GIPA student stated that she left the university because, according to her, lecturers forced students to attend rallies and awarded them grades in return.

Imedi also shared this segment of the program on social media with the following text: “Former GIPA student: GIPA lecturers forced us to attend rallies, and we received grades for it.”

The dissemination of a statement with this content should be assessed as part of the ongoing discrediting campaign against participants of the pro-European protest and activists, as it creates the impression that students’ participation in rallies was driven not by an independent civic position, but by personal