The ruling military council issued a decree to widen the scope of the emergency law - restricted in 2010 by ousted president Hosni Mubarak to narcotics and terrorism cases - to target labour strikes and the "spread of false rumours."
It will also target acts that "disrupt traffic," state news agency MENA reported. That could possibly outlaw many demonstrations like the regular protests held after an uprising overthrew Mubarak in February.
"Widening the scope of crimes liable under the emergency law along with terrorism and narcotics is the result of the security conditions the country is undergoing and the breach in public order," the agency quoted General Mamduh Shahin as saying.
The general, a member of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, stressed the "necessity of confronting thuggery and all who threaten Egypt's security and harm its reputation abroad."
Those arrested under the law face emergency state security courts, which critics say are unfair and result in harsh sentences.
source: Telegraph
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