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May 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A constitutional declaration ratified in a referendum in March last year gave
the military the responsibility to “protect” the country but said
only parliament had the right to proclaim a state of emergency, at the
executive’s request.
The military had suspended the constitution after Mubarak’s overthrow.
Essam Erian, the deputy leader of the Islamist Freedom and Justice Party,
which has the most seats in parliament, said the military’s statement
indicated it would not ask parliament to extend the law.
The party’s leader and presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi has said the law
will not be renewed.
Ending the state of emergency was a key demand of protesters who toppled
Mubarak in an 18-day popular uprising in January and February last year.
Thousands of Egyptians had been jailed under the law over the previous
decades. Many have been released since the military took power.
But the ruling generals have themselves been criticised for trying thousands
in military courts, which resemble the state security emergency tribunals in
the limited rights afforded to defendants, human rights groups say.
“This is historic because the state of emergency was one of the Mubarak
police state’s tools,” said Heba Morayef, a Cairo-based researcher for
Human Rights Watch.
“It is a reflection of the fact that the age when the interior ministry
was above the law and had unlimited power is over,” she said.
“Unfortunately, this will not end most serious abuses that we saw over
the last year and a half, because those were committed by the military and
legitimised by military courts,” she added.
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