Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred 29 pro-Muslim Brotherhood students to the Cairo Criminal Court over charges of committing acts of violence, sabotage, and breaking into the administrative building of Al-Azhar University on 30 October.
The students were detained pending trial.
They are also charged with assembly for the purpose of influencing authorities and disrupting law, as well as the possession knives and thuggery.
Ten students were arrested in the clashes with security forces on Monday and a private bus was torched by demonstrators.
Students at the university have stepped up protests since a fellow student was killed on campus in clashes by security forces 21 November. The victim was a sixth year medical student named Abdel Ghany Mohamed Hamouda. Students have vowed to continue protesting until the perpetrator of Hamouda's death is brought to justice.
On 30 October, clashes also ensued between student protesters and security forces at Al-Azhar University hours after the arrest of Freedom and Justice Party Deputy Leader Essam el-Arian. The administrative building was heavily damaged and graffitied following the incident, in which over 20 students were arrested according to Reuters.
