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| One Killed as Egypt Police, Students Clash | |
| 2014-03-27 | |
| [AnNahar] One person was killed and 14 maimed Wednesday when police and student supporters of Egypt's deposed 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... clashed at Cairo University, the health ministry said. Riot police fired volleys of tear gas from the university's main gate at students who were demonstrating against Monday's sentencing of 529 Morsi supporters to death in the biggest such act in the country's modern judicial history, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent reported. The interior ministry said a law student from Al-Azhar Islamic University in the Nile Delta city of Tanta was killed in the festivities. Elsewhere, 16 people were maimed in festivities between security forces and students of the Nile Delta university of Zaqaziq, state news agency MENA quoted the health ministry as saying. The Anti-Coup Alliance, which supports Morsi, had called for protests on Wednesday against sentencing by a court in Minya, south of Cairo, of Morsi supporters for the murder and attempted murder of two coppers during riots on August 14. Of the 529, only 153 are in jug. The rest were tried in absentia and will get a retrial if they turn themselves in. Another 17 defendants were acquitted. The court has also set April 28 for the verdict on some 700 other co-defendants. Monday's verdict triggered a global outcry as the sentences were handed down after just hearings. The mass trial is part of a relentless crackdown on supporters of Morsi, Egypt's first civilian and elected president, who was ousted by the army last July. Since then, his supporters have staged near daily protests calling for his reinstatement. These protests have often descended into street festivities with security forces and sometimes opponents of Morsi. Since July, a police crackdown on Islamists has killed more than 1,400 people in festivities, while thousands more, including most of the top leaders of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, have been tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... Morsi himself currently faces three trials on various charges, including colluding with krazed killer groups. Student demonstrations have crippled higher education,
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