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Publish date29 Dec 2014 - 13:32
Story Code : 177840

Egypt intensifies crackdown on students

The head of Egypt’s al-Azhar University has refused to readmit students expelled for taking part in peaceful protests inside the university’s campuses, Press TV reports.
Egypt intensifies crackdown on students

Despite the students’ written vow that they will not take in any protest again, Abdel-Hai Azab described the expelled students as cancerous cells and accused them of belonging to a so-called terrorist group in reference to the Muslim Brotherhood.

On Sunday, al-Azhar University expelled 51 students for their alleged involvement in "violence", bringing to 122 the total number of expelled students this academic year. The university had expelled 71 students earlier this month.

However, the Cairo University has readmitted its expelled students after they vowed in a written statement that they will not take part in any future protest.

Students believe that the government is trying to clean the universities from the Muslim youth.

At least 210 students have been killed by security forces, in excess of 2000 injured, approximately 2,300 arrested, and over 600 expelled from Egyptian universities since the military ouster of the country’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, Independent student observatories say.

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