Curbs on the long delayed elections

However, the "dissident" as the students are aiming at with the exception of restrictions on the nomination - the first since 2012, the elections will be held in Egypt. Polls on November 16 to begin Monday and run through December due to the country's campuses.

More than 23,000 students are standing in the elections. But the poll, according to the rules, 'terrorist' and 'It is forbidden to forbid students working in teams.

According to the body of former President Mohamed Morse, an Islamist group of high-ranking officials of the army and the country's first democratically elected leader in 2013 after the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as a terrorist organization, the fans, aims.

"April 6 Youth Movement," the activist group banned by a court decision on the students, is a permanent ban.

Candidates must be Egyptians, to be paid for their college expenses and to engage in on-campus activities. They also must have no links to political parties or have been subjected to disciplinary action.

The candidate, according to a perceived pro-government alliance against political activity on campus, "Student Voice of Egypt" is coming. His rivals in the opposition, students, standing as an independent academic independence, the defense is seeking the release of detained students.

Against the background

Universities in Egypt since the overthrow of Morse is observed violent anti-government protests.

Clashes between students and police in a riot that resulted in deaths and has been arrested. Academic institutions are also accused of inciting or participating in violence on campus, dozens of students have been expelled.

On the eve of the elections, a candidate for higher education authorities warned against political campaign and vowed not to interfere in the poll process.

"No student he was convicted by the court, proved to be higher in the rioting or its affiliated entities participating in a terrorist group subject to university disciplinary board will be removed from the case," said Higher Education Minister Ashram el-Sheehan.

"We do not have the lists prepared in advance, except for the students. But we have the right to prevent the union of the current terror."

After the overthrow of Morse, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, accused the government of instigating trouble banned political activity on campuses.

"The Ministry of Higher Education is inclined toward any political party, the unions are distinguished service to students," said el-Sheehan.

The opposition is unhappy students

Opposition students electoral rules out deliberately to exclude them from the constant claim that. As a result, dozens of students have been disqualified from the race, they say that.

"The main reason for the sidelining of the students to be engaged in a major university student who wants to be a candidate implies that the article is incomprehensible," said Mahmud Salami, a student of the Islamist Strong Egypt Party.

"The condition of the Ministry of Higher Education, universities, administrators are allowed to comment on an issue by itself a clear mechanism for implementation is not clear."

Bahia Mocha, a ministry official target for certain students have been excluded from the election in protest denied that. Students "do not meet certain requirements for the cancellation of the election rules," has been made in the press Mocha.

"Any student of the right to appeal has been disqualified."