More than 100 Cairo University students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood protested yesterday for the third time against a decision barring 60 students from sitting for their second-term exams and to expelling 17 from the Faculty of Engineering as punishment for hanging posters on trees on campus.
The protesting students sat down outside the office of the dean of the Faculty of Commerce and lined up in the adjacent corridors. They were encircled by faculty guards.
Students expressed their surprise at the decision, which they said included ten graduates and two dead students, demonstrating confusion within the university administration.
According to the students, the decision was made by the dean on 23 January, but the legal affairs committee only sent the relevant letters to the students on 17 April.
The decision was also made without any investigation, a violation of the university’s regulations, said the students.
In a related development, the Administrative Court postponed until 17 May its examination of a lawsuit filed by students of commerce against their dean.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
