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EGITTO. IL PRESIDENTE MURSI PROMETTE LIBERE ATTIVITÀ AGLI STUDENTI UNIVERSITARI |
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Egypt’s first elected civilian President Mohammed Mursi has promised to remove decades-old restrictions on student activities in the country’s universities. “Students suffered marginalisation due to injustices of an era, which passed and will not return,” Mursi told a student gathering in Cairo this week. He was referring to security agencies’ interference in academic affairs under the 30-year rule of former president Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled in a popular revolt early last year. Mursi, an engineering professor, took office in June after winning milestone presidential elections. “You are free in universities and there are no curbs on your movements, way of thinking and activities,” Mursi told more than 2,000 students from Egypt’s public and private universities. Mubarak’s police were often accused of harassing and detaining dissenting students and lecturers, mainly Islamists. Since Mubarak’s ouster, Islamists have become the dominant power on Egypt’s political scene. Mursi, detained at least twice under Mubarak, hails from the long-banned Muslim Brotherhood. Addressing the students, Mursi pledged to promote higher education and scientific research. “Egypt will not achieve progress without advanced scientific research and a revolution in all stages of education,” he added. “We want a comprehensive national development and you are the tools and driving forces of this development.” In a bid to allay fears in Egypt about the rise of political Islamism, Mursi pledged to make Egypt a “civil, democratic and modern state”. “Egypt today is a civil state. It will not be a theocracy or a military state,” he said.
(Fonte: A. Khaled, universityworldpress.com 06-09-2012)
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