EGYPTIAN POLICE ATTACK FEMALE STUDENTS AT DEMONSTRATION

Cairo, 9 Jumadil Akhir 1435/9 April 2014 (MINA) – Egyptian security forces have attacked female students protesting the country’s army-backed government, Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Wednesday.

Police forces used tear gas against the students staging a demonstration outside the al-Azhar university campus in the capital Cairo on Tuesday.

The protesters also demanded that ousted President Mohamed Morsi be reinstated.

Egypt has been experiencing unrelenting violence since Morsik, the country’s first democratically-elected president, was ousted on July 3, 2013. Hundreds have lost their lives in the ensuing violence across the country.

Since then, Egypt’s military-backed government has launched a bloody crackdown on Morsi’s supporters and arrested thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members, including the party’s senior leaders.

According to figures by the country’s security officials, around 16,000 people have been jailed so far.

Amnesty International recently criticized Egyptian authorities for using an “unprecedented scale” of violence against protesters and dealing “a series of damaging blows to human rights.”

According to the UK-based rights group, 1,400 people have been killed in the political violence since Morsi’s ouster, “most of them due to excessive force used by security forces.” (T/E01/IR)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)