CAIRO
An Egyptian university student has been detained for carrying a bag pin of the four-finger Rabaa sign that commemorates hundreds of demonstrators killed in mid-August in Cairo's Rabaaal-Adawiya Square.
Shaimaa al-Hadidi, a student in the Menoufiya University's Faculty of Arts, was detained by university guards on Tuesday for attaching the Rabaa pin to her bag.
The civilian guards called in police who later referred the student to the prosecution on charges of displaying the Rabaa, a colleague of Shaimaa, who asked not to be named, told Anadolu Agency.
Legal sources confirmed the arrest, saying the university girl will be questioned by the prosecution on Wednesday.
The incident is not uncommon.
A high school student in the Nile Delta province of Kafr al-Sheikh was remanded in custody last week for carrying a ruler emblazoned with the Rabaa salute.
The bright yellow symbol has come to signify solidarity with hundreds of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi who were killed on August 14 when security forces violently dispersed their protest camp in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
On Wednesday, an Alexandria court sentenced 14 pro-Morsi female protesters to 11 years in prison each for "illegal assembly and belonging to a banned group."
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