According to the state-run MENA news agency, hundreds of Al-Azhar University students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood staged demonstrations in front of the main building in Nasr City on Wednesday, calling it the “Second Azhar Intifada.”
Security forces prevented the students from going out of the campus to demonstrate in the street and disrupt traffic.
The demonstrators launched fireworks, chanted slogans against the administration and the army, and flashed the Rabaa sign.
Meanwhile in Banha University, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported demonstrations by Brotherhood students in front of the faculties of medicine on the anniversary of the March 2011 referendum.
Campus security deployed extra personnel to face the demonstrations.
In Abu Zaabal, Brotherhood protesters formed a human chain on the Khanka road, raising pictures of ousted President Mohamed Morsy and the victims of the Rabaa al-Adaweya sit-in dispersal. They chanted slogans against the army and the police and engaged in altercations with the residents of the area.
For his part, Qalyubiya Governor Mohamed Abdel Zaher raised the state of emergency, canceled all vacations and took measures to secure facilities against the Brotherhood demonstrations.
Police also stepped up security in the governorate and on the Cairo-Alexandria Delta road.
According to the official Al-Ahram newspaper, Brotherhood students at Cairo University who are affiliated with the “Students against the Coup” movement staged demonstrations and posted them live on the Internet with their mobile phones.
They raised the al-Qaeda flag, chanted slogans against the police, and demanded the release of their colleagues.
The Faculty of Engineering Student Union called on all students to join the demonstration.
Administrative security separated the demonstrators from the other students.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
