Excesses that violated public security and order were one of the reasons the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued a decision extending the emergency law in Egypt, SCAF member Maj. General Mamdūh Shāhīn said.

"Expansion of the law to include crimes of terrorism and drug trafficking was because the ill security conditions the country is going through currently," Shāhīn, the Assistant Minister of Defense for Legal Affairs, said in statements.

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