Hungarian students protest education reforms

Published December 19, 2012 9:49pm ET



BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian high school and university students went ahead Wednesday with protests against changes in the education system despite the government’s acceptance of some of their demands.

In Budapest, the capital, several thousand students gathered outside the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, dissatisfied with the concessions announced by the government. Calling their protest the “Winter Rose Student Revolution,” they later marched downtown and threw rose petals into the Danube River.

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