University students clash with police

Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi clashed with security forces and other students on university grounds across Egypt on Tuesday, after a call for demonstrations inside campuses was issued earlier this week.

The privately owned daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that the demonstrations were called for by the Brotherhood under a slogan of “Patience is the path to victory.”

During clashes at Al-Azhar University Monday, police fired tear gas. The Vice President of Al-Azhar University said that less than 5,000 students protested. Monday also saw clashes at the Universities of Cairo, Ain Shams, Zagazig, Helwan, Minya and Beni Suef.

At Mansoura University in the Nile Delta, clashes lasted for nearly 90 minutes on Tuesday with pro-Morsi students trading rocks and fireworks with pro-military students and security forces.

Birdshot was also used, reported the website of the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram.

The state-owned news channel Nile News said Ultras, hardcore soccer fans, were present at the Mansoura clashes.

Cairo University also saw confrontations on its campus.

Dozens of students, described as supporters of the Brotherhood by state media, clashed with security forces and other students after chanting slogans against the Armed Forces, raising banners with the Rabea symbol, and demanded the release of detainees who were held after the clearing of the Rabea al-Adaweya and Nahda sit-ins.

Security forces deployed around Cairo University, creating security perimeters, especially around the main campus and the emblematic dome of the university.

On Monday, pro-Brotherhood students attacked a photojournalist with Al-Masry Al-Youm, the newspaper said.