36 Al-Azhar students sentenced to 4 years prison
On Sunday, 36 Al-Azhar University students were sentenced to four years in prison each after being found guilty of rioting during protests on campus last December, reported the Agence France-Presse.
The defendants were also slapped with a fine of LE30,000 each.
Students at Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Commerce gathered in protest on Sunday morning under the watchful eye of campus security forces, reported the privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Students at Ain Shams University also demonstrated on Sunday, protesting against the arrest of their classmates and calling for their immediate release. The demonstrators chanted against the Armed Forces and the police, and held up banners depicting the yellow and black icon commemorating the brutal dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in, according to the state-owned news site EgyNews.
A group of students then broke into the Faculty of Commerce building at Ain Shams, as others blocked Khalifa al-Maamoun Street, according to EgyNews.
Egypt's universities have been the site of increasingly deadly violence since former President Mohamed Morsi was removed from power last July. At least 14 students have been killed during clashes on campus across the country in this academic year alone, while hundreds more have been expelled and arrested.
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