Tomorrow, Wednesday, 12 noon, Helwan University‘s Resistance Students are jointly demonstrating with the 9th of March Movement professors against police assaults on student activists.
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Court: Police must leave university campus
The Administrative Court ruled against police presence on the Egyptian universities campuses, calling for the troops immediate evacuation.
The court criticized the “University Guards Administration” which follows the Interior Ministry and which deploys uniformed and plainclothes police officers and corporals on campuses. Instead, the court continued, each university must have a “University Guards Unit” which would follow orders from the president of the university itself (not the interior ministry).
The lawsuit was brought forward by activists from the 9th of March Movement for the Independence of Egypt’s Universities.
The Mubarak’s regime will not fully implement the court ruling and will try to maneuver. Only a sustained campaign from below on the campuses will pressure the regime to abide by the ruling and expel the Gestapo, just like what the students did in 1971.
Riot in Aswan after police kill man
From AFP:
Police fired tear-gas at about 2,000 rioters in the southern Egyptian town of Aswan on Sunday as they protested the police shooting to death of a bird-seller, a security official said.
Police with the anti-drug squad had mistaken the man, Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq, for a drug dealer.
“They were going to arrest a drug dealer. They went into the wrong apartment,” the official said.
Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported that the man had opened fire on police before being shot, although this was not possible to confirm.
On hearing of Abdel Razeq’s death, the protesters surrounded the hospital where his body was taken and pelted it with stones, smashing windows.
Riot police clashed with the demonstrators, firing tear-gas to disperse them. Four protesters were injured in the clash.
A report in Arabic is available here.