Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Muslim Brothers are boycotting the student union elections in Cairo and Ain Shams Universities to protest security interference. Just like before, thugs were allowed into Ain Shams U campus to assault the student activists.
Correction: No clashes happened in Ain Shams on the same scale as 2006. The plainclothes thugs were indeed brought to campus, and there was a stand off. But no fighting happened as MBs decided to withdraw from the elections.
I received a statement signed by six Egyptian human rights groups denouncing the ongoing wave of violence and abductions unleashed by the police and the pro-govt students against activists on campuses.
Kefaya is organizing a demonstration Saturday 26 May, 6pm in front of the Press Syndicate, to mark the second anniversary of Black Wednesday (25 May 2005), when Mubarak’s NDP thugs were mobilized by the police to sexually assault women reporters and activists in broad day light in Abdel Khaleq Tharwat St., while protesting the sham constitutional amendments referendum.