Clashes occurred on Tuesday between pro-Muslim Brotherhood students from Ain Shams University and security forces on al-Khalifa al-Ma'moun Street as students threw rocks and fireworks and security fired tear gas.
Traffic was suspended on Khalifa al-Ma'moun Street and cars were directed to alternative routes.
The students organized a march against the dismissal of dozens of students over committing violence, during which the clashes occurred.
In related news, dozens of pro-MB students at Al-Azhar University in Zagazig, Sharqiya Governorate, protesed the referral of 13 female students to criminal court and the dismissal of 36 others from university.
They chanted against the military, police and the Al-Azhar grand sheikh and called for cancelling the referral and dismissal decisions.
Engineering students at Zagazig University created a human chain to protest the dismissal of two students, preventing them from attending the term exams. The students raised banners deprecating the dean and president of the university.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
