Pro-Palestinian UPenn encampment reaches day 15, six student protesters placed on leave

 Six student organizers have been placed on mandatory leaves of absence after participating in 15 days of an unlawful "Gaza Solidarity Encampment," according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

The six students received letters from Vice Provost for University Life notifying them of the disciplinary action, citing Section III.D of the Charter of the University of Pennsylvania Student Disciplinary System.

According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the letters also cited "threat[s] to order and safety" and “increasingly unsafe conditions” as reasoning for the mandatory leaves.

One of the student protesters allegedly had her campus ID card deactivated and could not access her dorm room, per the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The UPenn university handbook states that leaves of absence are enforced when there are “extraordinary circumstances."

Fox News Digital has reached out to the University of Pennsylvania's office of communications for comment.