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Egypt police to guard universities outside campus grounds
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi announced on Thursday that police forces will be permitted to guard universities from outside campus grounds, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.The decision comes as universities across Egypt have witnessed mounting tensions since the beginning of the academic year in September. El-Beblawi said police forces will be dispatched around campuses to assist the universities' private security services in their identity checks and car searches. University heads are entitled to invite police forces to enter university premises, El-Beblawi added. Police forces will also be allowed to intervene after obtaining authorisation by the prosecution. Since the start of the academic year, supporters of ousted Islamist 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... have organised several protests across Egyptian universities. Their demonstrations have often escalated into festivities with students supportive of the military, who announced Morsi's ouster in July following mass protests against his rule. At Cairo's Al-Azhar University on Wednesday, tens of students participated in a march through the campus, storming and ransacking the main administrative building. Following a request from the university, Egyptian police then entered the prestigious Islamic institution to confront the protesters. It was the first time police had entered a university since a 2010 court ruling banned interior ministry personnel from operating on university grounds, a police general told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-01 |
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