Tag: students

Mubarak’s crackdown on MB students continues

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The universities’ administrations, acting at the behest of the security services, continue to crack down on Muslim Brotherhood students activists.

In Cairo:

Al-Azhar University administration referred 120 students to disciplinary boards, starting from Wednesday May, 9, 2007 until later next week, a move the students described as a malicious trick to deny them access to second term exams scheduled to be held a few days later .

And in Upper Egypt:

Less than 15 days before end of year exams, Bani Sweif University President, Dr. Ahmad Refaat issued on Wednesday May, 9, 2007, a decision of dismissing ten students in the Faculty of Commerce for a month starting from May, 10th till June, 10th, denying the dismissed students access to second term exams this year.

State Security torture 8 Assiut student activists

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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.

Solidarity with Moneim

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Activists have called for a sit-in Tuesday 11am, in front of the Shobra Prosecutor’s Office, in solidarity with blogger Abdel Moneim Mahmoud and the Muslim Brotherhood student detainees, who will be interrogated on that day.