The World - News from Jan. 1, 1989
Egyptian police arrested 61 Muslim militants after receiving reports of attacks on students and death threats against staff members at Assiut University, police sources said. Witnesses said heavily armed riot police ringed the campus, 240 miles south of Cairo, where the sources said 13 students were detained Thursday and 48 more on Saturday. The newspaper Akhbar el Yom said militants had attacked students with chains, knives, batons and whips in 16 assaults in the town of Assiut in the past 40 days. University President Abdel Razzak Hassan told reporters that the offending students may be expelled. Muslim fundamentalists believe in strict Islamic Sharia laws and say all Muslims must observe them.
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