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Egyptian political movements refuse the extension of emergency law
Published in Youm7 on 13 - 09 - 2011

"No to emergency law" is the slogan raised by Egyptian political movements, confronting the declarations issued by the member of Egypt's ruling military council, Mamdouh Shahin, who had stressed the emergency law will continue until June 2012.
Egypt's political movements threatened of the public escalation to pressure the authorities to back away from the decision of emergency law. They consider such a situation as a continuation of the policies pursued by the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's former regime.
Many activists called for organizing demonstrations in Tahrir Square on September 16, while others called for organizing protest against the decision, demanding the Egyptian government to cancel the emergency law.
The Union of the Revolution Youth called upon Egyptians to demonstrate on in Tahrir Friday, and other main squares throughout Egypt to express their refusal to the recent amendments of the emergency law. They consider the policies adopted by Egypt's ruling military council not different to the former regime's and they also demand the ruling council to determine a timetable to hand over the authority to civilians.
The union refused attempts aiming to exploit recent events to the revolution a bad image along with the demonstrators and not responding to the demands of the Rectification Friday. It warned of using the emergency law to suppress the revolution and undermine it, which raised a state of panic and fear among all Egyptians.
A member of the executive office of the union, Haitham al-Khateeb, said the policies adopted by Egypt's ruling military council raised skepticism about the government's intentions. He signaled the recent amendments of the emergency law aim to intimidate Egyptians and suspend the change achieved by the Egyptian January 25 Revolution.
He warned such policies will lead to a revolution against the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
A member of Political Office of the April 6 Movement, Mohamed Adel, refuses the declarations issued by Shahin about considering extending the emergency law until June 2012, as a circumvent of the will of the people.
Adel called the military council to abandon such a decision and to take serious measures to organize a dialogue with all political, national and public powers to resolve all crises in Egypt.
Adel demanded the ruling council to respect recent constitutional amendments, which decided any decision to extend the emergency law should be approved by the people through a referendum. He added people will not accept any exceptional laws anymore.
On the other hand, the Free Front for Peaceful Change considered the measure as a threat to the achievements of the revolution and a return of policies pursued by Mubarak's former regime.
The Front justified the assaults against the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday and said Egyptians expressed their anger against the establishment of wall built to protect the Israeli embassy. It demanded the government to release all those arrested in this incident immediately.


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