Egypt State Information Service (Cairo)

Egypt: Imminent Republican Decree to Grant Powers of Arrest and Detention to Army Officers

8 December 2012

President Mohamed Morsi is due to issue soon a republican decree whereby the Armed Forces are to take part in maintaining security and protecting vital state institutions until the endorsement of a new constitution and completing parliamentary elections.

According to the decree recently approved by the cabinet, Armed Forces officers and non-commissioned officers assigned to maintain security and protect vital state institutions in designated areas will be granted powers of arrest and detention and all other legally defined powers of police officers.

  • Comment

Copyright © 2012 Egypt State Information Service. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.

AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 130 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.

Comments Post a comment