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Manchester University students complain of 'prison' as police riot vans scrambled to protest and campus residents filmed by security
top floor of Owens Park Tower.They want to meet the university's vice chancellor, Dame Nancy Rothwell, to discuss a discount on their rent fees due to the circumstances they have endured this term.A member of University of Manchester Rent Strike told the Manchester Evening News that the university staff backed down on the blockage of food supplies later in the evening and gave them access to WiFi this morning, following intervention from Gorton MP Afzal Khan.In a retweet showing officers at the scene last night, the group said: "The most expensive prison. Having the police here to keep us in our cells tonight is such a draconian method.