CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi extended for the second time a state of emergency first declared following deadly church bombings in April, in a decree issued in the official gazette on Thursday.
The renewed three-month state of emergency will start on Friday, according to the decree.
“The armed forces and the police will take the necessary measures to confront the dangers of terrorism,” it said.
Parliament approved the initial state of emergency in April after the two church bombings claimed by Daesh that killed at least 45 people.
The state of emergency was then renewed on July 10.
The terrorist group said it was behind the bombings in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria, and it threatened further attacks against Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority.
Terrorists also claimed a Cairo church bombing in December that killed 29 people.
The emergency law expands police powers of arrest, surveillance and seizures and can limit freedom of movement.
Egypt had been ruled for decades under a state of emergency, which was canceled a month before Mohammed Mursi took over as the president in 2012.
Following Mursi’s overthrow by El-Sisi, then an army chief, in 2013, a state of emergency was declared for a month after clashes between police and Islamist protesters that killed hundreds and after extremist mobs attacked Christian properties.
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Egypt extends state of emergency for 3 months starting Friday -official gazette
Egypt extends state of emergency for 3 months starting Friday -official gazette
Iran Guards vow ‘stronger’ response than in January if new protests erupt
- The warning comes two weeks into Iran’s war with the United States and Israel
TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the country’s military, warned on Friday that any new protests against the authorities would be met with a stronger response than in January, when several thousand people were killed.
“The evil enemy, failing to achieve its field battle goals, is once again pursuing the instillation of fear and street riots,” the Guards said in a statement broadcast on TV, promising “a stronger blow than on January 8” in the event of new unrest.
The warning comes two weeks into Iran’s war with the United States and Israel in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says one of the aims is to “create, for the Iranian people, the conditions to bring down” the Iranian government.
US President Donald Trump has also called for Iranians to rise up and overthrow their government.
In December, protests against the high cost of living in Iran turned into a broad protest movement against the authorities.
It reached its peak on January 8 with what Iranian authorities called “riots” blamed on “terrorists” working on behalf of Israel and the United States.
The official death toll from Iranian authorities stands at more than 3,000, with the government saying the vast majority were members of security forces or passers-by.
NGOs based abroad have accused the security forces of deliberately firing on demonstrators.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency, based in the United States, says more than 7,000 people were killed.
Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979.
“The evil enemy, failing to achieve its field battle goals, is once again pursuing the instillation of fear and street riots,” the Guards said in a statement broadcast on TV, promising “a stronger blow than on January 8” in the event of new unrest.
The warning comes two weeks into Iran’s war with the United States and Israel in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says one of the aims is to “create, for the Iranian people, the conditions to bring down” the Iranian government.
US President Donald Trump has also called for Iranians to rise up and overthrow their government.
In December, protests against the high cost of living in Iran turned into a broad protest movement against the authorities.
It reached its peak on January 8 with what Iranian authorities called “riots” blamed on “terrorists” working on behalf of Israel and the United States.
The official death toll from Iranian authorities stands at more than 3,000, with the government saying the vast majority were members of security forces or passers-by.
NGOs based abroad have accused the security forces of deliberately firing on demonstrators.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency, based in the United States, says more than 7,000 people were killed.
Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979.
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