Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood and leftist students are demonstrating at the Cairo University campus in Giza, protesting state security’s hassles against opposition candidates running for the student union elections. The list of candidates certified to run in the elections should have been announced by 3pm. As of the time of writing, it hasn’t. The student …
Bloody clashes have been going on for the third day on the row at Ain Shams University campus in Abbassiya, as student union elections approach. Pro-government students assaulted Muslim Brotherhood activists at the Faculty of Education at Ain Shams University, and tore down their electoral posters. The MB mobilized demos to denounce the attacks, but …
No this is not in France, this is in Egypt… Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Press Release- 11 October 2006 Expulsion of Veiled Students from University Hostel Arbitrary and Discriminatory The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today condemned the decision by Helwan University’s President to expel female students who choose for religious reasons to …
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