CAIRO — A Cairo city court sentenced 10 students and three professors from Al-Azhar University to three years in prison on charges of illegal protesting, Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday. Egypt's interim government introduced a new protest law in November, which criminalizes protests and demonstrations that were not previously approved by authorities. The university had witnessed violent clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted former president Mohamad Morsi since last August, following his army-backed overthrow in July. Security officers stormed Al-Azhar campus Wednesday night in a crackdown on protesting students, after a long night of demonstrations calling for the release of students detained under the controversial Protest Law, newspaper Daily News Egypt reported Thursday. – Agencies