Egyptian police have beaten and detained 25 students ahead of a nationwide strike on Monday to protest against government policies.
According to a human rights group, the students were staging a sit-in outside a courthouse in the Nile Delta city of Kafr el-Sheikh in protest at the arrest on Thursday of two other students.
"A central security truck arrived outside the courthouse, and the police began to run after students and beat them," Rawda Ahmed of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) told AFP.
"Some students managed to get away, but police detained 25 of them," she said. When the lawyers came out to see what was happening, "police proceeded to beat them up too."
On Thursday, female students Omneya Ahmed Taha Ghazi and Sara Mohammed Rizk from Kafr el-Sheikh University were arrested by the Egyptian police for distributing posters calling for people to join the April 6 strike.
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