About 2000 Ain Shams University students marched from their campus Wednesday to the Defense Ministry to protest recent security attacks on protesters in downtown Cairo.
The armed forces erected metal barriers and barbed wire in front of the ministry.
A socialist student movement, the April 6 Youth Movement and other activist groups organized the march, during which participants shouted slogans and held banners for those who died when police and military forces broke up the cabinet sit-in on Friday.
During a separate march to the ministry on Tuesday, hundreds of engineering students protested on behalf of a fellow student whose stomach was wounded during the recent violence. After reaching the ministry they returned to campus, where thousands of students, administrators and deans joined the demonstration.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
