Hossam el-Hamalawy
Thousands of Al-Azhar school teachers are on strike in six provinces refusing to correct the exams for the High School Diploma and Preparatory School Diploma, protesting the government’s decision to exclude them from an employment reform package decreed for teachers.
The strike includes, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm, around 22,000 teachers.
From Ikhwan Web:
The Egyptian State Security Police forces detained on Friday, May, 4, 2007, eight Muslim Brotherhood students from Al-Azhar University, while they were going to the mosque to perform Friday Prayer; later, another group of students were arrested from their dorm. All the detained students were taken to the Assiut State Security Service headquarters; a State Security Police officer, Ashraf Abul Makarem, tortured the students using electric shocks, and ordered them to take off their clothes and bead them on their naked bodied while showering them with a flurry of insults and treated them inhumanely.
They appeared after that before Assiut prosecution on Saturday evening, May, 5, 2007, after remaining under custody and torture of the State Security Police for thirty six hours.
Four Muslim Brothers student activists were detained in the Nile Delta town of Tanta.
In Cairo, Al-Azhar University dismissed seven MB students, and barred six others from entering the second term exams.