Dr. Mahmoud Mehanna, Vice-President of Al-Azhar University in Assiut, referred 36 students of science, theology, dentistry, law and pharmacy, belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, to a disciplinary council for distributing leaflets and in violation of the rules. “Political activism should be outside the walls of the university, which is limited to teaching and where the role of a student is to learn,” Dr. Mehanna said.
The students denounced the decision and considered it a violation of human rights. In Menoufiya, Dr. Ahmed el-Shazly, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Dr. Gamal Eddin el-Morsy, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, disqualified for two weeks 9 students of each faculty for participating in a Muslim Brotherhood activity. Mansoura University also disqualified 64 students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood Group, bringing the number of disqualified students to 300 since the start of the academic year, according to the group's information center. The university also referred 19 students to a disciplinary council and banned 18 others from classes until the end of the academic year for violating the rules. The students held a demonstration on campus while security forces surrounded the university so that they would not take to the streets.
Kafr Al-Sheikh University also disqualified six students for two weeks, bringing the number of disqualified students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood to 38 students.
