A group of people has been charged with felony burglary after protesters at Stanford University barricaded themselves inside the school president’s office. The group included 12 protesters and a Stanford Daily reporter, according to the student publication.

The people had been detained by the Stanford University Department of Public Safety and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, and several, including the reporter, were released on bail that night. As the students were being removed, one public safety officer was injured. Students were suspended and banned from campus until June 12, and seniors will not be allowed to graduate.

“Any arrested students who were eligible to graduate will not be able to receive their diploma while their conduct case is pending with the university’s Office of Community Standards, and they will not be able to participate in Commencement,” Luisa Rapport, the director of media relations for Standford, told the Washington Examiner.

The publication previously called the reporter’s arrest “a threat to the freedom of the press” and said he or she was “falsely imprisoned.” Another reporter was arrested from the publication, but he or she was not working the protest for the publication and was only there in a personal capacity. It is unknown if that reporter was charged.

Protesters demanded that the school meet a set of needs before they would leave the office, which they had barricaded with bike locks, chains, and other reinforcements while also covering security cameras with tin foil. The demands were to add the divestment bill submitted by Stanford Against Apartheid in Palestine to the next Board of Trustees meeting with a recommendation of support from President Richard Saller, to commit to financial disclosure from fiscal 2022, including endowment investments, and to drop all disciplinary and criminal charges against pro-Palestinian students at Stanford.

In the statement, Saller said the protesters vandalized buildings in the main quad, some of which included “vile and hateful sentiments.” After the students were removed, Saller said the encampment that had been violating campus policies but had until then been allowed to remain was removed.

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The protest is one of the boldest against universities, coming after dozens of campuses saw pro-Palestinian encampments erected in May. If convicted, the people could be labeled as felons.

Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez wrote they were “appalled and deeply saddened” in a letter circulated to the Stanford community.