Egypt’s military rulers assert wider powers in wake of attack on Israeli Embassy

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CAIRO — Egypt's military government is sharply expanding emergency powers to detain people without evidence or official charges, in what critics are decrying as the most significant curbs on personal freedoms here since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

In the wake of the mob assault on the Israeli Embassy last week, Egypt's interim leaders are reviving and broadening laws used to detain thousands of dissidents during the Mubarak years, calling the move critical to maintaining law and order in a country confronting a tumultuous transition to democracy. Already, dozens of Egyptians arrested in connection with the embassy attack are being sent for processing in state security courts that are associated with the old emergency laws and that pass sentence without offering defendants the right to an appeal.

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Anthony Faiola 17 Sep, 2011

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