A pro-Palestinian coalition of University of Michigan student groups say authorities have weaponized the legal system to quash their protests and have called on Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to drop what they say are “politicized” charges.

A New Orleans judge on Friday is expected to hear the case against more than a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators accused of remaining in a place after being forbidden, a misdemeanor charge that came after a May skirmish on Tulane University’s campus.

Ten protesters will face misdemeanor charges in connection with a May 15 pro-Palestinian protest at UCI that police declared an unlawful assembly, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. They were charged with failure to disperse at the scene of a riot, while two also were charged with resisting arrest, prosecutors said.

Fourteen people charged with trespassing on Tulane’s campus earlier this year have been found not guilty by a New Orleans judge. Cops booked the protesters in May after a 30-hour demonstration in front of the university’s St.