{"id":3073,"date":"2013-10-20T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T14:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2013-10-20T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T14:58:55","slug":"riot-police-clash-with-students-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/10\/20\/3073\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot police clash with students in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/clash-inlcario.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of students protesting against military rule at Cairo&#8217;s al-Azhar university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Clashes between protesters and security forces erupted when the students tried to move their protest out of campus on Sunday. Protesters were seen throwing rocks at security forces and a number of students were arrested. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The group organising the march was responding to a call by the Anti-Coup Alliance for a national uprising against the military-backed leadership that took power after President Mohamed Morsi was ousted on July 3.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Protesters were also demanding the release of political detainees.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Similar demonstrations were held at Cairo University and in the district of Abu Hamad in el-Sharqiyah province.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A witness told Reuters news agency that police fired bird shot and tear gas to prevent protesters from marching to the site of a protest camp that was destroyed two months ago.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Al-Azhar is in the same Cairo suburb as the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the scene of a former pro-Morsi sit-in where hundreds of protesters were killed as security forces broke up the sit-in.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Rabaa Square is completely off-limits,&#8221; a security source said. &#8220;Protesters are not allowed to move inside it.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Al-Azhar university has long been regarded as the foremost institution in the Islamic world for religious studies, and many students there are supporters of Morsi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ahead of the new term starting on Saturday, the university warned students not to engage in political activity or they would risk classes being suspended indefinitely.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Since the start of the academic year in September Egyptian university campuses have witnessed a number of protests, mostly by supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Protests for and against military rule have been held almost daily in various Egyptian cities since Morsi was overthrown and detained.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hundreds of people have been killed in clashes as security forces have cracked down on Islamist-dominated sit-ins and scores of Brotherhood members have been detained.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Morsi will stand trial on November 4 with 14 other defendants over the killings of protesters outside his presidential palace in December 2012, when demonstrators took to the streets against a decree the president issued to shield his decisions from judicial oversight and a highly disputed draft constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source:<em><strong> Al Jazeera<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of students protesting against military rule at Cairo&#8217;s al-Azhar university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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