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Security forces, student protesters clash across Egypt
2014-04-24
[Iran Press TV] Egyptian security forces and student protesters have once again clashed at several universities across the country.

Cairo's al-Azhar University became the scene of violent confrontations on Wednesday after students gathered outside the faculty of medicine against police presence on campus.

They also set the office of security personnel ablaze before security forces used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Protesters then took to nearby streets and blocked off a road, which led to a police chase.

Student protesters at the university's branch in Asyut also set a school bus ablaze and surrounded the general secretariat building.

Student protests have also been reported in Alexandria and Fayoum.

Al-Azhar University has been the scene of festivities between supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
and police since the start of the academic year last August.

A court in Cairo on Wednesday sentenced 10 students and three professors from the university to three years in prison for "illegal protests".
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