In May 1968 the University of Paris at Nanterre was closed due to problems between the students and the administration.
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At the end of 2002, students held mass demonstrations protesting the death sentence of reformist lecturer Hashem Aghajari for alleged blasphemy.
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During the 1930s students began to become more politically involved with the formation of many socialist societies at universities, ranging from social democratic to marxist-leninist and trotskyite, even leading to Brian Simon, a communist, becoming head of the NUS.
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The youngest brother of Ahmed Hussein, founder of the Young Egypt Party, Hussein became an anti-British activist early and was imprisoned for communist student activism from 1953 to 1956.
He went to Coimbra to study at the University of Coimbra, and eventually dropped out, albeit being involved in the student activism and Coimbra fado music.