Pro-life students at a University in Scotland were forced to remove a stall of literature from a university freshers’ fair, in the latest episode of a long running campaign of campus censorship.

Activists had been displaying anti-abortion posters, leaflets and bookmarks, some of which featured a logo of an unborn child with the words “life is precious”, at the University of Strathclyde.

Members of the students’ union argued that the material exhibited by the Strathclyde Students for Life Society was too graphic and breached their safe-space policies.

Last year, after a protracted legal case, the university’s student association lifted a long-running ban on prolife groups affiliating with the union, which had prevented the group accessing funding. Despite that, union officials introduced a policy requiring all affiliated societies to adhere to pro-choice rules.

Catherine Deighan, 18, president of Students for Life, said that the group had no choice but to pack up and leave. “We have been entirely discriminated against and censored,” she said. “Receiving that policy was very intimidating, given that we recognised the names of those who had approved it and they are extremely hostile to our view.”