Egypt’s national security law

Last week, Egypt lifted its long-running state of emergency which had granted special powers of surveillance and detainment by the military. Now, it’s moving to make a separate national security law that was once temporary, permanent. It gives the military many of the same powers to detain civilians and try them in military courts that the state of emergency enabled. There is also a package of draft national security laws approved by the Egyptian House of Representatives that challenge civil society, like a state secrets law that outlaws reporting on the military. Marco Werman interviews Mai El-Sadany of The Tahrir Institute of Middle East Policy about the changes and legislative proposals in Egypt.