The Egyptian parliament has just given the go-ahead for some of the country's emergency laws to be extended.<br /><br />The decades-old regulations were put in place after the assasination of Anwar Sadat, the former Egyptian president, almost 30 years ago.<br /><br />Now the government has decided to lift some of those original restrictions - the changes state that the law would only apply to terror and drugs cases.<br /><br />Analysts argue that the latest step is a legal ploy that masks the law's violation of basic human rights.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Amr El-Kahky reports.
