Three students at the German University in Cairo (GUC) have been detained for four days pending investigations into an alleged assault on GUC’s President and security guards. President of the GUC’s student union, Hazem Abdel Khalek, the Vice-President, Karim Naguib, and undergraduate student Alaa El-Atar were arrested after being accused by the university’s administration of violence, said the GUC’s student union. According to Al-Ahram, GUC Chariman and Founder Ashraf Mansour had filed a complaint against a total of 11 students, but only three have been summoned by the prosecution. In statements to Al-Ahram, Mokhtar Mounir, a lawyer from the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE), said the university had said it would retract its complaint if the students apologize to the university. One of the charges relate to ‘damaging the university president’s head’, said Mounir. According to the GUC student union, this charge appears to relate to an incident in which GUC President Dr. Mahmoud Hashem Abdel-Kader was caught on camera telling his driver to run over students blocking the university’s gates. The charges reportedly date back to a week-long strike in March after the death of 19-year-old Yara…
