by Fanny Ohier | Hoqook
On the 13th of February the Egyptian cabinet approved the new draft law on limitating the demonstrations, proposed by the legislative and human rights committees of Shura Council, the upper chamber of the Parliament.
As the Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki underlined it in a press statement on last Wednesday, the interior ministry does not have the right to forbid protests, though the law does put several limits to the demonstrating process.
The conditions to organize a demonstration, specified by the new law, concern its notification to the Interior Ministry at least five days before its proceedings; the ability for the Interior Ministry to refuse it organization «for security reasons»; and other several bans concerning the proceedings of the demonstration itself.
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