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| Residents clash with Azhar students in Nasr city |
| 2013-12-09 |
| [Al Ahram] Clashes intensified late Sunday evening between Al-Azhar students and Nasr City residents on streets surrounding the university's dormitories, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported. The locals threw empty soda glass bottles at the students from the roofs of buildings, as a lack of security forces on the scene allowed the altercation to develop into a street battle. Ahram Arabib website reported that angry locals searched other residential buildings for Azhar students and dragged some out of rented apartments. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... Deputy of the Cairo Security Directorate Yehia El-Eraki told Al-Ahram's Arabic website that security forces had managed earlier on Sunday to contain the unrest caused when 300 Al-Azhar students blocked the neighbourhood's main road. He added that an atmosphere of cautioned silenced reigned on Sunday night around the dormitories, with security forces' armoured vehicles stationed at its entrances and exits. Clashes between the security forces in front of the main gate of Al-Azhar University's student dormitory and the pro ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... students started Sunday morning, with the police firing teargas and the students responding by throwing rocks at the security personnel. The teargas caused tens of cases of faintings among students. None of the students were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , El-Eraki stated, and traffic resumed as normal, with shopkeepers in the immediate vicinity of the dormitories re-opening their stores. Hundreds of students, mostly supporters of ousted president Morsi, have been enjugged You have the right to remain silent... in recent weeks as police continue a four-month-long crackdown on members of the Moslem Brüderbund. Al-Azhar campus in Cairo has been the scene of ongoing protests by Islamist students since the start of its academic year in October. On 21 November, a pro-Morsi student was rubbed out during festivities with security forces at Al-Azhar University. Police officials deny using anything other than water cannons and teargas to disperse student protests. |
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