African Students Persecuted in Austria

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Two Nigerian students, Mr. Onodi Bright-Taylor and his wife Mrs. Unokanma Bright-Taylor, gave a press conference in London on May 21, in which they described their experiences in Austria. They had recently been depoxted from Austria after being held in gaol for ten days. Mrs. Bright- Taylor was until a few months ago president of the Pan-African Studnnts! Union of Austria, This body had been formed in 1961 to combat the growing discrimination against afAfrican students in Austria, Africans were . regularly thrown out of their lodgings and out of public places merely because of their colour. The police interrogated at length members and officers of PASUA, and eventually the couple were arrested. Mrs. Bright- Taylor says she was stripped naked and beaten with a rubber truncheon during her imprisonment.