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Thousands Attend Anti-Emergency Law Conference in Cairo
Tens of thousands from around the country attended a heated conference organized by the Lawyers’ Syndicate April 8, to protest the notorious Emergency Law. Hazem Salah Abo Ismail, conference coordinator and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, stressed on the rule of the people themselves “ to confront the oppression and injustice” saying that the Egyptian regime has lost its credibility and
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Tens of thousands from around the country attended a heated conference organized by the Lawyers’ Syndicate April 8, to protest the notorious Emergency Law. Hazem Salah Abo Ismail, conference coordinator and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, stressed on the rule of the people themselves “ to confront the oppression and injustice” saying that the Egyptian regime has lost its credibility and can not pursuit reform by itself. Abo Ismail hoped that the spirit of the conference “will spread to every house in Egypt”. Participants blamed emergency laws for the corruption spreading across society and for slowing development in economic, cultural and scientific fields. The conference was attended by Dr. Aziz Sedky, former Egypt’s PM and the chairman of the National Front for Change (NFC) in addition to several members of the Muslim Brotherhood including Dr. Mohamed Ali Bishr and Dr. Mohamed Morsy from the MB Executive Bureau and Mr. Hussein Ibrahim, deputy chief of the MB Parliamentary bloc. The Muslim Brotherhood, in coordination with the NFC and all political parties, is leading a popular campaign to rescind emergency law and abolish all other freedom restricting laws. THE EMERGENCY LAW IN EGYPT The emergency law is a tool in the hands of the executive power to storm many basic rights and freedom guaranteed by the Egyptian Constitution. Since the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat in October 1981 , the emergency law was renewed by a temporary resolution no. 560/1981 for one year and then has been extended many times again till 2003. |
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