CAIRO (AA) – Students staged rallies in several Egyptian provinces on Wednesday to denounce what they call the July 3 "military coup" against elected President Mohamed Morsi, amid reports of some casualties.
Students affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organized three rallies and formed human shields in Zagazig University in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya to demand Morsi's reinstatement.
Clashes broke out between Brotherhood students and their opponents, amid some reports of injuries.
According to sources at the scene, two students were treated for injuries on the spot.
Islamist students also protested in Mansoura University in the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya against the "military coup" and new powers granted to university's security personnel to arrest students on campus.
Students also performed prayers for the hundreds of pro-Morsi demonstrators killed by security forces since the Islamist president's ouster by the military more than two months ago.
They also held a fair for what they said were products of Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, the site of a seven-week long pro-democracy protests that was crushed by security forces last month.
A rally was also held by female students in the Ain Shams School in the Fayoum province south of Cairo against what they called "interference" by security forces in a pro-democracy march staged one day earlier.
Two protests were also organized in the Nile Delta province of Qalioubiya by students calling themselves "Youth against the coup." They called for Morsi's reinstatement as president and condemned a recent court ruling legally banning the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Monday, a Cairo court ordered the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood Society and the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood group and all affiliated bodies, along with the confiscation of all of the group's properties and financial assets.
Scores of women and female students also staged a rally in the Shubra al-Kheima district in northern Cairo, bringing traffic in the area to a standstill.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected head of state, was deposed by the military on July 3 after mass protests against his presidency.
The unconstitutional change of government is described by the ousted president's backers as a "military coup," while supporters of the move call it a military-backed "popular uprising."
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