Egypt’s SCAF announces emergency laws will end June 2012
Egypt's military says emergency laws to remain until June next year.
CAIRO: Egypt’s emergency laws will continue until June next year, according a statement by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF).
The statement made by General Adel el-Moursi, the head of the Military Judiciary Authority, in response to an intensified call for an end to the controversial law.
General el-Moursi claimed that the law was extended for a period of two years in a June 2010 presidential decree.
“The new constitutional declaration announced by the ruling military council last March indicates that all laws and regulations approved before the declaration are both valid and respected,” General el-Moursi said, according to Egypt’s al-Ahram daily newspaper.
In previous comments, members of the ruling Military Council promised to end the law before parliamentary elections this November.
The SCAF extended the emergency law, however, after protests erupted in front of the Israeli embassy earlier this month.
Protesters have long demanded an end to the state of emergency laws, which was instated after the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
Activists and political groups marched in Tahrir Square earlier this week to protest the law and the ruling Military Council
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