Since Thursday, Al-Azhar University campus in Nasr City has been raging with demos by student activists, over the expulsion of eight activists with the newly formed Free Student Union. Acting on the behest of State Security, the administration has excluded six Muslim Brothers and two Kefaya activists from the term exams and denied them the right to education.

Today the students continued their demos on campus, which came under security siege.

The FSU is an independent student association, launched last year by the MB and Socialists, to try to act as a parallel organization to the official student union which is run by the security services. The initiative picked up this year following the grotesque security abuses against activists in October and November this year.