Azhar, the world’s foremost Sunni Islam institution, denied that any of their Uyghur students has been arrested on the university campus, or at any of Azhar’s fellow institutions. Azhar said in a statement that it is following all news reports and social media in this regard alongside concerned authorities. The statement said that what has been broadcasted about the numbers of detainees by some websites and channels are not at all accurate. It added that Al-Jazeera’s false rumors and malicious news about the arrest of more than 500 students from Azhar is slander, deception and distortion intended by the channel to abuse Egypt and Azhar. Egypt authorities have reportedly arrested at least 62 Uyghurs living in Egypt without informing them of the grounds for their detention, and have denied them access to lawyers and their families.

Source: Egypt Independent July 08, 2017 12:56 UTC