50,000 Yemeni students call for trying Sharon; Egypt's students deplore postponement of Arab summit
Regional, Politics, 3/29/2004

The Egyptian universities witnessed yesterday more acts of protests over the assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, sparked in particular by the postponement of the Arab summit which was due in Tunisia today.

The demonstrators called for convening the summit as soon as possible in order to take decisive positions against Israel and its "brutal crimes" and accused the Arab leaders of not paying attention to the assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.

Some 1,000 students gathered at Cairo's university at the invitation of the Islamic trend and chanted "they sold your blood Yassin, they said they will not come to the summit." The Students wear T. Shirts on which written were " we are all Yassin" and they raised green banners and pictures for Yassin and burned the Israeli flag.

Similar demonstrations were held at al-Azhar and al-Manofeyah universities, Banha and Kafer al-Sheikh ( North ), according to the police.

More than 50,000 persons went into a demonstration in Taez governorate ( 270 Km to the south of Sanaa ) on Saturday demanding the Arab leaders in Tunisia's summit to come up with practical resolutions to support the resistance in Palestine and Iraq. In a message addressed to the Arab summit, circulated on journalists, the organizers of the demonstration called for "filing a judicial case in the name of the Arab nation against the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and the executors of Sheikh Yassin's assassination and planners of it to the International criminal court because the assassination operation is a war crime and an aggression against humanity." Thousands of Moroccans took the streets in the capital Rabat at the invitation of non- governmental organizations, political parties and civil society organizations.

The demonstration which was licensed earlier included 8,000 demonstrators, according to its organizers and 5,000 according to the Moroccan authorities. The demonstrators, with the majority are Islamists, denounced the Arab government and the Arab League. They carried pictures for the assassinated Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and chanted slogans deploring the American occupation of Iraq and considered the Palestinian and Iraqi people as one."

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