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Demonstrations Erupt in Universities Against Emergency Laws
The national campaign against emergency law kicked off yesterday where thousands of Egyptian university students marked the occasion through a series of coordinated angry demonstrations denouncing emergency laws and rejecting the security apparatus meddling in academic affairs. The demonstrations organized by different political and national forces active in the Egyptian community.
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The national campaign against emergency law kicked off yesterday where thousands of Egyptian university students marked the occasion through a series of coordinated angry demonstrations denouncing emergency laws and rejecting the security apparatus meddling in academic affairs. More than 10 thousands students participated in demonstrations organized by the Muslim Brotherhood students in several university campuses including Helwan, Monofya, Assyot, Zakazeek, and Alexandria.
The students also expressed their determination to continue their peaceful campaign through all different channels until their demands are met and the citizens’ rights are restored. In an attempt to abort these anticipated protests, the Egyptian government stepped up its campaign of detentions of students and prefessors in different universities in order to undermine the fierce popular opposition to the emergency laws which is the government expected to ask the parliament to extend them. President Mubarak, during his fifth reelection campaign, promised to abolish the 25 years old state of emergency. |
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