CAIRO - A group of professors, calling for independence of Egyptian universities, have filed a report to the Public Prosecution complaining about assaulting on them by unknown persons on the campus of Cairo University while they were distributing a court ruling ordering police out of the university. "We have filed a report to the prosecution with photos of the assaulting and attacks against professors of March 9 by some thugs in Ain Shams University last Thursday," said Leila Sueif, a professor of science at Cairo University, another public university. Sueif, also a member of the March 9 Movement for the Independence of Universities, added that the group would continue tours in Egyptian universities to call for the ruling to keep police guards out of the campus be implemented. "Our tours will continue and this barbarism will not stop us from calling for independent universities," she said. The professors were distributing the ruling to remove police guards when they were assaulted by chain-wielding thugs last Thursday after they attempted to stage demonstrations at Ain Shams University in Cairo. Demonstrators were eventually joined by students affiliated with the April 6 protest movement and the banned Muslim Brotherhood opposition. Late last month, Egypt's Higher Administrative Court ordered the on-campus police guards out of the Cairo University, a ruling that was said to be generalised in all Egyptian universities. The Government has said it will comply with the ruling. Critics of the Government have, however, said no step has been taken yet to this end. The Ministry of Higher Education, meanwhile, filed a report against the March 9 group saying that its members had entered the campus of Ain Shams University, Egypt's second biggest State-run university in terms of students numbers, without a permit to hold a protest.
