CAIRO: Hundreds of protesters rallied in Tahrir Square on Friday against the recent activation of emergency law clauses. "This is an oppressive law that gives too much authority to security forces," Yehia Rabie, 50, told Daily News Egypt. "Why can’t we suffice with applying our civil laws like the rest of the world?" The Friday, …

CAIRO: Several political forces including El-Ghad political party, the Revolutionary Forces Alliance and the Revolution Youth Union called for a silent protest Friday against the recent activation of emergency law clauses. "We mainly aim by this protest to object to the continuation of the emergency law," head of El-Ghad party Ayman Nour told Daily News …

CAIRO: Egypt intends to stop using emergency laws "as soon as possible" after the controversial powers were reactivated this week following the storming of the Israeli embassy, the information minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "We hope to end this state as soon as possible, and call on all people to cooperate and not …

CAIRO: A number of political forces will hold a silent million-man protest in Tahrir Square dubbed the "Friday of Deafening Silence" to object to the continuation and the recent amendment of the emergency law. "We call upon Egyptians to show up after Friday prayers dressed in black to reject the extension of the emergency state …

  CAIRO: Egypt has begun procedures to end the country’s three-decade old state of emergency, the government said on Thursday, a key demand of the protesters who ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.   The cabinet said it would abide by a pledge to end emergency rule, which gave Mubarak’s hated police sweeping powers to …

By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: The Emergency State Security Court on Sunday adjourned to Sept. 4 the case of 48 defendants involved in the Imbaba sectarian clashes last May, which left 15 dead and 242 injured. A new dock was created in the courtroom in order to separate the Muslim and Christian defendants, as security forces …

CAIRO: The current Egyptian government’s response to calls for improving human rights, when compared to the previous government, “is like night and day,” Salil Shetty, secretary general for Amnesty International, told Daily News Egypt Wednesday. In his first visit to Egypt following the revolution, the head of Amnesty International cited progress in Egypt’s approach to …

CAIRO: Amnesty International urged Egypt’s interim rulers on Wednesday to lift emergency laws that it said had let security officials ride roughshod over human rights for 30 years under former President Hosni Mubarak. The human rights group said arbitrary arrest and torture had been the "hallmarks" of Mubarak’s rule, and called for a thorough investigation …

By Yasmine Saleh/Reuters CAIRO: Mohamed Mohamed, a 24-year-old ceramics worker, says he was seized by police while acting as a volunteer at the Tahrir Square protest to oust Hosni Mubarak, blindfolded, taken away and tortured under emergency law. Mohamed was fetching food late at night from nearby Champlion Street for other protesters in the tent …

CAIRO: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday became the first foreign leader to visit post-Mubarak Egypt and will push for an end to emergency law, while refusing to talk to the influential Muslim Brotherhood. The downfall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and uprisings across the region have prompted Western governments to rethink their policies …