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Chinese students riot against police brutality

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From the BBC:

Hundreds of students have rioted against the police in central China after a fellow student was beaten up by city inspectors, witnesses said.
Students from a number of universities in Zhengzhou, Henan province, burned cars in the four-hour rampage.
They came out onto the streets after inspectors were accused of assaulting a woman student who had set up a street stall, knocking out her front teeth.
A number of inspectors have been disciplined over the incident.
The unrest broke out on Wednesday, after the student was beaten up for apparently selling items on the street without a licence.
As many as 1,000 students from at least three universities took part in the protest, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights said.

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.