State Of Emergency In Egypt
Updated: 11:44am UK, Monday 28 January 2013
In declaring a state of emergency in three Egyptian cities, President Mohamed Morsi has underlined the gravity of the situation facing his country.
He has also gambled by using laws dating back to his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Mr Morsi said he might take further steps "for the sake of Egypt" but the state of emergency already allows sweeping powers for the police, Ministry of Interior and the president himself.
A curfew will be enacted for a month from 9pm to 6am in Port Said, Ismailia and Suez and their surrounding regions. All three sit along the strategically important Suez Canal waterway.
Normal judicial process can be ignored, and people arrested on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Mr Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood (MB) party came to power last June on the back of the ousting of President Mubarak.
He engineered the new constitution to ensure the presidency retained overwhelming legal powers, and then fast tracked it into law with a rushed referendum in December.
For him to now use emergency laws retained in the constitution has infuriated his opponents and will fuel the accusation that he is "Mubarak with a beard".
However, given the importance of the Suez Canal, widespread violence elsewhere, including in Cairo, the president says he had no choice.
Reacting to accusations that he ignores all voices save those of the army and the MB, he has invited opposition leaders to discuss how to end the violence.
But many opposition figures say they will not co-operate with a man they claim is becoming a dictator.
In return MB supporters say the opposition is trying to overthrow Egypt's first democratically elected leader.
The violence was partially sparked by the second anniversary of the overthrow of Mubarak, and partially by the end of a trial of football fans from Port Said accused of murdering 74 rivals from the Cairo club al Ahly last February.
When 21 men were sentenced to death on Saturday, rioting broke out almost immediately with dozens of people killed in clashes with the police.
The coming together of the two events has only underlined how unstable Egypt is, and the declaration of a state of emergency is unlikely to do anything to solve the underlying problems besetting this country of 84 million people.
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