Cairo unrest

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33113, 2 January 1973, Page 9

Cairo unrest

N.Z.P. A.-ReuterCopyright) CAIRO, Jan. 1.

More than 1000 students at Cairo University staged a campus demonstration for a second successive day yesterday and called for the release of fellow students now under arrest.

Government officials'' will not say how many people are

i being held, but a universitywall newspaper has named about 30 students, including journalists and lawyers.

A sit-in demonstration was also reported yesterday at Alexandria University’s engineering faculty, where six students are said to have been arrested. Similar trouble was reported from Alexandria last month. The students and others now in custody are accused of spreading sensational propaganda and rumours, posing a danger to national unity, j and infringing university regulations. Their colleagues on the Cairo campus say they [were detained on Friday. [ During the demonstration in Cairo students shouted: ! “Sadat, Sadat where is freeidom?” and "Sadat, Sadat our | colleagues are in prison.” This reference to President Sadat referred to his speech to Parliament on Thursday, when he said that students should be free to continue their “discussions.” But he said too that he would not allow the country’s strength to be undermined by actions of the “adventurous Left or the reactionary Right.”