Around 300 university students staged a rowdy protest in downtown Cairo on Monday calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down and further "democratic reforms".
The protest, held on the grounds of the American University in Cairo, was the latest in a series of demonstrations aimed at increasing political freedoms in Egypt.
Truckloads of police cordoned off the university during the protest, which comes ahead of planned September presidential elections in which more than one candidate — other than Mubarak — will be able to stand.
