According to a Friday statement by the Ministry of Interior, protesting students outside the dormitory were blocking the road and clashing with the residents of the neighbourhood. Central Security Forces (CSF) were able to control the clashes and have arrested seven "rioters". The statement added that the protesting students returned to attack shops in the area and clashed with the residents a second time. CSF interfered, using tear gas and birdshots. After the clashes had been settled, a group of students moved an injured student who was later pronounced dead. One student died after clashes which occurred Thursday in the Al-Azhar University student dormitory. The 18 year-old student, Abdel Latif Khalifah, died from birdshot wounds in the face and chest, according to a statement by Students Against the Coup (SAC) spokesman in Al-Azhar University Mahmoud Al-Azhary. Al-Azhary added that the student protests will commence after the Friday prayer and assured that no examinations will be held until the "martyrs have retribution". Kahlifah is the second student to be shot dead after clashes with police forces in Al-Azhar dorms; the first was shot late November. SAC is the student arm of the Anti Coup Alliance. It launched a campaign calling for a student strike boycotting the semester exams under the slogan "take the exam, but when you are done wiping my [referring to the student victims] blood well". The reasons stated for boycotting the exams include the detention and death of students and the assault of female students. SAC criticised last Wednesday's cabinet decision allowing the presence of police forces on university campuses to secure the examination process and labelling any individual showing the Rabaa sign as a supporter of a terrorist organisation.
