CAIRO, Oct 19 (Aswat Masriya) - Egypt's Interior Minister announced on Sunday that it dispersed gatherings of students "belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood" who attacked administrative security and public facilities inside four university campuses. 

"The police intervened and arrested 29 rioters," said the Interior Ministry in a statement published on its Facebook page, adding that "those who participated in acts of vandalism were determined through surveillance cameras." 

The small demonstrations were inside Azhar, Mansoura and Minya Universities, according to the Interior Ministry, in addition to Cairo University's Faculty of Dentistry campus.

In Minya, tens of students along with the "Students Against Coup" movement marched from inside campus to the university gates and blocked the Misr-Aswan Agricultural road. 

Clashes broke out between students "supporting the Muslim Brotherhood" and administrative security in the University of Tanta as well. 


Meanwhile, in Mounifiya University, dozen of students staged a demonstration on campus to demand the release of their detained colleagues. 


University campuses have witnessed unprecedented violence throughout the past academic year, with at least 16 students killed amid on-campus protests, according to the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression's Student Observatory.

The "Students against the coup" movement has been organising protests against the former Islamist president's military ouster throughout the past academic year. Protests have often devolved into clashes with security forces.

Before the start of the academic year on Saturday, the cabinet discussed measures to be adopted during the year to quell any possible tension.

Minister of Higher Education Sayed Abdel Khalek hired a private security company in September to guard 12 public universities during the coming academic year.