Egypt's police arrest 52 people in Shura Council protest - official

Tuesday 26-11-2013 06:44 PM
Egypt's police arrest 52 people in Shura Council protest - official

Riot police detain a man, who was protesting against a new law restricting demonstrations, in downtown Cairo November 26, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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CAIRO, Nov 26 (Aswat Masriya) - Egypt's security forces arrested 52 people who were protesting outside Cairo's Shura Council on Tuesday, an Interior Minister's aide said in a telephone interview with a privately-owned news channel.
 
Egypt's army-backed interim government passed on Tuesday a law regulating protests, which largely restricts the right to peaceful assembly.

The law stipulates that organizers of protests must notify the authorities three days prior to the protest and that they must announce the reasons behind the protest and the slogans that would be chanted during it.

Directing his words at the revolutionary forces, the security official said "do not clash with the Interior Ministry and commit to the protest law," he added, "recognize why this law is made."

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