Anti-coup night protests continue in Egypt

A number of Egyptian areas witnessed night demonstrations against the coup yesterday; while a government minister said that the Council of Ministers has yet to discuss the proposals on the laws which govern protesting.

Six protests took place in Alexandria overnight, including the areas of: Al-Mandara, Al-Muntazah and Al-Wardian. Rabia slogans were held up demanding the release of the detainees.

The minister of Egypt’s transitional justice ministry, Ibrahim El-Heneidy, said the government was not looking into the amendments proposed by the National Council for Human Rights on the protesting laws.

A spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Justice said earlier that the department is working on an amendment to the protest law which bans demonstrations without police authorisation.

This law has triggered wide controversy since its release last November and human rights organisations have demanded the abolition of the law. The decree was used to carry out the arrests of several political activists and to issue court rulings against them.